Chapter 113

"Yes, sir," Chad responded.

Soon after, a cup of coffee was placed in front of Elliot.

As Chad exited the room, he bumped into Chelsea who was on her way over.

She was not wearing any makeup, and her face looked unusually haggard. 1

Chat approached her, intending to speak to her, but in the end, he said nothing. 3

Chelsea entered Elliot's office and shut the door behind her.

"I'm sorry, Elliot," she said in a hoarse voice as she stood in front of Elliot. "This was all due to my

brother's scheme. He knew that you were still recovering, so he made you go up that hill. It's an

especially steep hill. We don't usually go up there ourselves. He wanted you dead." 1

Elliot stared silently at her pale face, then said, "I know."

"I'm sorry. He won't apologize to you. He already left the country," Chelsea said through the lump in her

throat. "Please forgive my family, Elliot. My father's getting old, and I'm afraid he won't be able to

handle the backlash. If you have to punish someone, then punish me. I'll take it all without question."

Elliot continued to stare at her in silence.

was seeing her for the first

on the most immaculate makeup and only presented her best

these years, Chelsea," he

appear in front of me again. If you can

I'll leave your family

streamed down Chelsea's face as she digested

It was over!

completely over between

took a deep breath and tried to hold back her tears,

escape her

took one final, deep look at Elliot, then turned and ran out

of the building, it was Ben's turn

knew that Elliot would not want to hear a word about

If you don't want to

small at home,"

a sip of his coffee, then said coldly,

and never celebrated

already prepared your birthday present, though. How is she supposed to

party? You should know that what she's giving you isn't something you

Ben said, throwing

to pretend like he did not care, but the look in his eyes gave him

been working on it all day and all night just

"Don't you want to see it

has ever knitted you a sweater with their own hands before!"

not like wearing sweaters because

process of knitting a whole sweater was

was foolish of anyone to do something

would never

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