Chapter 239 We Need to Talk

However, Hayley had only warned Anastasia to stay away from Elliot.

Anastasia was more than happy to oblige, but Elliot simply wouldn’t leave her alone. As things were, she was at her wits’ end trying to shake him off.

Initially, she thought it was a brilliant plan to have a fling with another man so that Elliot would see that she was taken and back off, but having heard his very ominous warning just now, she was starting to have second thoughts. If Elliot made good on his threats and decided to go berserk, the men whom she had taken advantage of for the sake of a tactical fling would become sacrificial lambs.

At that moment, her phone chimed with a new message. She picked it up and saw that it was a text from Alex which read, ‘Miss Tillman, will you be dropping by the company to see how things are anytime soon?’

It was only upon reading this that she remembered she had promised Francis to drop by the company and check things out. A while had passed since then, yet she still had not gotten around to it.

‘How about this Saturday? I’ll try to clear my schedule.’

‘Friday might be better; we don’t work on Saturdays.’

I’ll see

Miss Tillman. I’ll see

the conversation ended, Anastasia suddenly recalled the matter of Francis’ company getting acquired. She wondered how that was going. If Dad hasn’t said anything about it, does it mean that the

deep in thought when she heard the sound of keys turning outside the door. Jared had returned from his evening stroll, and

school day tomorrow. She stood up from the couch and

this and choked. As he coughed, he turned to look at the cold

She hurried up to him and asked out of concern, “Are you

ago when he and Jared left for their evening stroll, but now, she was treating him like he was wholly

I catch my breath here,” he said in clipped tones as he walked away with the drinking glass in hand. Then, he sat down on the couch and took

to ignore him

the couch. Anastasia, on the other hand, was bringing in the laundry from the balcony when she saw this scene, and even she had to admit that Jared and Elliot shared

that they were not

time for bed now, Jared. I need

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