His Eagle Eyes on Me

Avery wondered if she would be his mistress if that woman was still alive.

If she was dead, then was she her replacement?

Either way, it made her heart ache and left a bad taste in her mouth.

While Avery was lost in thought, Elliot's thoughts also wandered.

"Tell me, what exactly do you like about Cole?" he asked as he pulled out his cigarette box. His face was the epitome of an enigma.

"I don't like him anymore," Avery said coldly.

If they had not talked things out earlier, she might have continued to use Cole to anger him.

It was childish, but Elliot was always losing his temper over the smallest things.

If she did not retaliate, she would lose her mind.

"Is it because you realized he was nothing but a penniless loser?" Elliot asked as he held the unlit cigarette between his fingers.

"Is money all you think about?" Avery retorted. "Back when Cole was pursuing me, he would write me love letters every day. On the weekends, he would take me to art galleries and music recitals. We would have the

most wonderful conversations-" s "Sounds like a load of superficial bullsh*t to me! It's precisely because all he thinks about is getting into a woman's pants that his business is a mess," said Elliot, cutting her off. "What you consider wonderful was nothing but a joke!" 1

At seventeen, I was into basketball players. I liked talented guys when I was eighteen... I loved Cole. It's all in the past,

as he snapped his cigarette in half; his eyes were cold. "Go back to your room!"

pursed her lips and stood

did not return to her room but walked

eat, Mrs. Cooper?"

and not her that had just gotten into a fight

Cooper immediately prepared dinner

pulled out her phone, and saw a series

over! I'm not that into him. He's a little too soft for me. He didn't seem to be that

him much spending money! How could he possibly

to have dinner with him this weekend! I have to get to the bottom of this!

I'll tell

website

hand clenched her

room and noticed Elliot was

hear everything if she talked on

the call and sent Tammy a text: [I can't talk right now. Let's talk on campus

that night, Elliot paced back and forth in his room in a gray, silk

were

was floating around in his