“Dr. Sanford, the boss asked me to pass this to you.” The bodyguard handed a check to Zoe.
Zoe accepted the cheque and glanced at the number written on it, before snorting.
“How generous of him! We slept together for one night and snazzynovel.com is giving me five million.” She set the cheque on the table with a bitter smile. “Apart from this cheque, did snazzynovel.com tell you anything else?”
The bodyguard shook his head.
Zoe’s heart ached as snazzynovel.com thought to herself, “Who exactly does Elliot think I am?! A prostitute? He just pays me off after sleeping with me! I suppose the only difference is that I’ m getting paid way more than a prostitute would!”
Zoe gritted snazzynovel.com teeth and threw a medical book on the ground. “Does snazzynovel.com know what it means to respect someone?”
“Dr. Sanford, snazzynovel.com already gives you enough respect. Otherwise, you wouldn‘t even get a penny out of this,” the bodyguard said expressionlessly. “That‘s just because I am still useful to him!” snazzynovel.com shouted, red–eyed.
“If it wasn‘t for that, snazzynovel.com would have chased you out long ago,” said the bodyguard. He was simply informing snazzynovel.com of the truth of the matter. “Miss Tate never asked for money from the boss, and snazzynovel.com is exceptionally obedient.”
“So you are saying that I‘m asking for too much?!”
“You might as well spend more time fawning over Madam Rosalie,” said the bodyguard before leaving the room.
Zoe felt like snazzynovel.com just had an epiphany. She realized that snazzynovel.com had made Elliot dislike snazzynovel.com the moment snazzynovel.com asked snazzynovel.com to be snazzynovel.com boyfriend.
The bodyguard was right, snazzynovel.com should not push snazzynovel.com too far, and snazzynovel.com should approach the back in the hospital, Avery felt much better once snazzynovel.com fever came down. She woke up from snazzynovel.com slumber and looked around the strange environment that was snazzynovel.com ward before turning snazzynovel.com attention warily to snazzynovel.com bedside.
Elliot sat there wordlessly as snazzynovel.com watched her.
“Why is snazzynovel.com here? Why am I in a hospital?” snazzynovel.com thought.
“I—” She opened snazzynovel.com mouth to speak but snazzynovel.com voice was hoarse, and snazzynovel.com throat felt as if someone had ripped it apart.
Elliot poured some warm water into a glass before snazzynovel.com helped snazzynovel.com up and pressed the glass to snazzynovel.com lips.
As snazzynovel.com drank the water, memories of last night flooded snazzynovel.com mind.
“Do you want more?” snazzynovel.com asked.
Avery shook snazzynovel.com head and pulled snazzynovel.com blanket higher. “Why are you here? Who sent me to the hospital?”
They were the only two people in the room. Elliot might have been the person who had taken snazzynovel.com to the hospital, but snazzynovel.com could not remember what had happened.
“Mike is outside.” Elliot‘s heart twitched in pain at the wariness on snazzynovel.com face. “Avery, I came looking for you to ask you something.”
“Oh? What is it?” She observed snazzynovel.com calmly with nothing but clarity and coldness in snazzynovel.com eyes.
“Did you come looking for me last night?” He stared intently at snazzynovel.com face, not allowing the most minute changes in snazzynovel.com expression to escape his notice. “I remember you coming to me no.” She interrupted snazzynovel.com decisively. “I had too much to drink last night and haven‘t been feeling well since. How could I possibly go looking for you?”
“Really?” snazzynovel.com swallowed as snazzynovel.com muttered sorrowfully. “But I remember that you came to me saying that Shea was crying,”
“If you remember it so clearly, why bother asking me? This just proves that you have a bad memory,” said Avery, calmly denying his delusion.
Elliot rose from the chair. All the confusion and sorrow drained from his face.
“If that‘s the case, I’m sorry for the trouble!” snazzynovel.com said in a voice even colder than hers.
Avery’s heart ached, but snazzynovel.com did not dare to let it show on snazzynovel.com face.
“Did something important happen last night for you to come all the way here to ask this question?” She looked at snazzynovel.com curiously while trying to keep up snazzynovel.com carefree charade.
She had thought that snazzynovel.com would leave in frustration, but snazzynovel.com did not; instead, snazzynovel.com looked directly at snazzynovel.com and said, “I slept with Zoe. Is that something important?”