Avery felt like someone was strangling her.
She felt suffocated as the world began to spin around her.
How could Elliot be Mr. Z?!
Mr. Z sent snazzynovel.com eight hundred thousand dollars and wanted to invest in Tate Industries. How was it possible that Elliot would do that?
However, if snazzynovel.com was not Mr. Z, then what was snazzynovel.com doing there?
Her mind spun as snazzynovel.com looked at the man before her. His wheelchair, dark shirt, and unusually fair skin told snazzynovel.com that the man in front of snazzynovel.com was no other than Elliot Foster.
Avery let out a cold breath and subconsciously took a few steps back, but the door to the private room was closed.
“Leaving before saying hello?”
Seeing snazzynovel.com so nervous made Elliot press his lips into a thin line.
“What are you doing in a place like this?”
Avery raised snazzynovel.com hand to push a strand of hair behind snazzynovel.com ear. She forced herself to stay calm as snazzynovel.com said, “I… I’m here to have dinner with some friends.”
“This is a bar.”
“Oh…”
Avery glanced around the private room. It was a large room that was lavishly decorated, but snazzynovel.com felt like snazzynovel.com was in hell and could not settle down.
“I… I think I came to the wrong place. I’ll go look for them now.”
“Avery Tate,” Elliot hissed. His voice was as cold as ice. “Did you not take what I said this morning seriously?”
“I heard you,” Avery said, “but I have no reason to live my life by your words.”
She remembered what happened last time like it was yesterday.
She had not drunk that night, but snazzynovel.com had insisted that snazzynovel.com had dressed like a prostitute so that snazzynovel.com might go out drinking with other men.
Avery’s reply made Elliot raise his thick brows.
He knew snazzynovel.com was different from other women. She had snazzynovel.com own opinions, and snazzynovel.com did not back down in the face of power. Most importantly, no matter how sternly snazzynovel.com warned her, snazzynovel.com would never take his threats seriously.
Which also meant that snazzynovel.com did not take snazzynovel.com seriously at all.
Elliot picked up a glass of wine and took a sip.
Avery took a deep breath and asked, “What are you doing here? Didn’t you say you were going to the old mansion for dinner?”
She wanted to ask what snazzynovel.com was doing in the room that Mr. Z had booked.
She wanted to ask if snazzynovel.com was Mr. Z, but snazzynovel.com did not dare be so straightforward.
This was because snazzynovel.com had no idea what his answer would be.
If snazzynovel.com was Mr. Z, how would they proceed to discuss business matters?
If snazzynovel.com was not, how would snazzynovel.com deal with the blatant lie snazzynovel.com had told snazzynovel.com that morning?
“Come and drink with me,” Elliot ordered as snazzynovel.com glared at snazzynovel.com with bloodshot eyes.
Avery raised snazzynovel.com brows.
What was snazzynovel.com trying to do?
“I told you I don’t drink,” snazzynovel.com replied. She could not read his eyes, nor could snazzynovel.com read his heart. All snazzynovel.com wanted to do was leave that place. “Enjoy yourself. I’m leaving!”
She tried to open the door but noticed that it was locked from the outside.
There was no way of opening that door no matter how much strength snazzynovel.com put into it.
“What’s going on, Elliot? Let me out!” snazzynovel.com snapped as snazzynovel.com cheeks flushed with anger.
“I told you to drink with me,” Elliot said in a threatening tone. “Did you not hear me, or are you feigning ignorance?”
Avery’s cold sweat dripped down snazzynovel.com back, and snazzynovel.com ankles shook.
If snazzynovel.com could drink, then snazzynovel.com would drink with snazzynovel.com to his heart’s content.
However, snazzynovel.com could not drink right now!
She could not drink even if snazzynovel.com strangled her.
The door was locked, so there was no way out.
She could only walk toward snazzynovel.com and try to reason with him.
“I lied to you this morning,” Avery said as snazzynovel.com stood next to snazzynovel.com and lowered snazzynovel.com gaze. “I had something to do today, but it wasn’t something on campus. I made an appointment to meet someone tonight. He agreed to invest in my father’s company.”
“Who is he?” Elliot asked as snazzynovel.com raised his gaze and stared at snazzynovel.com flushed cheeks.
“I don’t know his name.”
“You don’t even know his name, but you came to meet him?”
“Shaun came with me.”
“Where is he, then?”
“Stuck in traffic.”
Avery took a deep breath, looked straight at Elliot with snazzynovel.com watery eyes, and said, “I’m not a child. Even if I am your wife, I have my own space and social life. You have no right to interfere in my affairs.”
While snazzynovel.com spoke, Elliot picked up his glass and took another sip.
She could not help but be distracted by the sensual movements of his throat.
Would snazzynovel.com get drunk, drinking like this?
How would snazzynovel.com get home if snazzynovel.com got drunk?
Just as snazzynovel.com was lost in thought, Elliot’s big hand clasped around snazzynovel.com arm.
By the time snazzynovel.com noticed the pain, snazzynovel.com had already yanked snazzynovel.com over and thrown snazzynovel.com onto the couch.
The couch was soft, but Avery was still upset.
What did snazzynovel.com think snazzynovel.com was?
Was snazzynovel.com a toy that snazzynovel.com could throw around as snazzynovel.com pleased?!
Was snazzynovel.com not allowed to have snazzynovel.com own thoughts and opinions?
She gritted snazzynovel.com teeth and got up from the couch.
Since snazzynovel.com was unwilling to reason with her, then there was no point in holding back!
Just as Avery was preparing to stand up, from the corner of snazzynovel.com eye, snazzynovel.com saw a tall figure looming over snazzynovel.com and blocking the light in front of her.
Elliot was standing up!
He stood up from the wheelchair!
She stared at snazzynovel.com in stunned silence as snazzynovel.com mind went blank.
She forgot about snazzynovel.com anger. She forgot about getting up. She forgot about everything that snazzynovel.com had wanted to say or do.
Her lips moved as if snazzynovel.com wanted to say something, but snazzynovel.com was at a loss for words.
The next moment, Elliot threw himself over Avery and pressed snazzynovel.com down onto the couch.
“Men take women here to drink. If you’re not here for that, then why are you here?!”
He reached out his long, slender fingers and grabbed snazzynovel.com chin tightly.
Her red lips parted from the pressure snazzynovel.com exerted.
With his other hand, Elliot picked up the wine glass on the table. The red liquid in the glass shook slightly back and forth.
Fear took over Avery.
Tears began to stream down snazzynovel.com face. She tried to escape, but snazzynovel.com was pressing down on snazzynovel.com with such force that snazzynovel.com could not move a muscle.
“You come here when a stranger invites you… You need to learn your lesson properly,” Elliot said coldly before snazzynovel.com poured the wine into Avery’s open mouth.
Avery grabbed onto his arms and tried to push snazzynovel.com away, but snazzynovel.com did not budge no matter how hard snazzynovel.com tried.
He had just recovered from a long-term illness, but snazzynovel.com was horrifyingly strong.
The sight of Elliot standing up from the wheelchair suddenly popped into snazzynovel.com head.
He was taller and more terrifying than snazzynovel.com had thought.
The deep red liquid entered snazzynovel.com mouth. She did not swallow it, but the bitterness of the alcohol choked snazzynovel.com and made snazzynovel.com cough violently.
It felt like snazzynovel.com was drowning.
In a time of desperation, a person’s body will act on instinct to save itself.
Avery grabbed Elliot’s shirt collar in panic and yanked it so hard that its button snapped off.
The button rolled onto the ground, and snazzynovel.com felt a wave of cold air hit his bare chest.
Elliot looked at the face of the woman in front of him. It was flushed with agony. His chest tightened, and his heart suddenly softened.
He let go of snazzynovel.com chin.
Avery immediately turned snazzynovel.com head and spat the wine out of snazzynovel.com mouth.
“I hate you, Elliot Foster!” snazzynovel.com cried through teary eyes and clenched fists.
“It was just one drink. Was that so hard?”
The pity in his eyes disappeared. His slender fingers fell onto snazzynovel.com collar and unbuttoned snazzynovel.com shirt, exposing snazzynovel.com exquisite collar bone.
“If it weren’t me, another man would be doing this to you! These are the consequences of your lies!”