Mike's stern roar resounded in Avery's ears and reached Chad's ears too.
Chad's anger surged up in an instant and he strode behind Mike to give him a pinch on the back.
Mike endured the pain and immediately rephrased his sentence. "What I'm saying is that you don't have to wait for him here! It's such a waste of time! No company president would come to work this early!"
His explanation did not convince Avery.
The phrase 'he's not coming' echoed constantly in her mind.
The strength in her body drained away like a balloon being deflated.
Mike dragged her out of the office with ease and they left the Sterling Group.
He stuffed her into the car and fastened her seat belt. "I'll get someone to drive your car back.”
Mike got into the driver's seat and immediately drove away.
Avery looked out of the window and watched as she was going further and further away from the Sterling Group's building. She murmured, "Mike, you said earlier that he's not coming. Who told you that?"
Mike felt a headache coming on when he saw her in a trance.
Telling her the truth would only trigger her emotions even more.
"It was a guess. I'm a man, after all," he said. "Chad also told me last night that—" "What did he tell you?" she interrupted him immediately.
"He told me that you were looking for Elliot, but Elliot didn't seem concerned at all, so he assumed that the two of you were arguing with each other again." Mike looked at the road ahead with a guilty conscience.
He was lucky that Avery could not see his face, otherwise she would have spotted his guilty look.
"I didn't argue with him."
How could she have ever expected him to give her what she wanted?
His decision to avoid her had already shown her what the result would be.
Avery felt miserable when she thought about how she failed to fulfill her promise to Henry, that Adrian and Shea would die one after another, and that her relationship with Elliot had reached an irreparable stage!
She should have listened to other people’s advice, whether it was Mike’s or Wesley's. Had she done so, neither she nor Elliot would have reached such dire straits.
However, she was only considering what she had lost.
In reality, the outcome was good, at least for Elliot it was.
He did not have to take out his company's shares, and he would not have the impulse to kill Henry and Cole.
Elliot was only angry at her, and even if he lost her, he would still be able to live a decent and dignified life.
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