Chapter 414 Passive-Aggressive

Downstairs, Elliot gaped after Anastasia wordlessly.

For some reason, he felt like he was being abandoned. Women were perpetually unsolvable mysteries, and not even Elliot, with his businessman brilliance and intelligence, could figure them out.

He did not bother pouring himself a glass of water and followed Anastasia up the stairs instead. When he got to her bedroom doorway, he saw that she was seated on the couch on the second floor and asked, “Where’s Jared?”

“Playing Legos,” she answered coolly, deliberately avoiding his gaze as she flipped through her half-read book.

At that moment, Elliot saw the glass of water on the table next to her and reached out to take it. However, just as he brought it up to his lips, she said curtly, “Don’t touch my glass.”

Seeing as he had already begun to drink from the glass, he gulped down a mouthful of water. He then narrowed his eyes as he asked, “Why not?”

drink the whole glass of water. I’ll just go

her glass? He was baffled as he sat down

from the moment he came home,

she muttered in annoyance, not wanting to say anything more

He was never one to beat around the bush be it in business deals or conversations. He would much rather have an open discussion when it came

be at a loss, right? You’d only have to put in some

in all seriousness, “Did you think I was butting into your personal affairs last

that he realized they didn’t just have a problem; they were having a crisis. Otherwise, she wouldn’t take such a feisty tone with him

which meant something must have happened in between that made her lash out at him like this.

earlier, showing it to him as she snapped, “Next time you

slightly when he saw the picture. I can’t believe Hayley

asked, “Anastasia,

before or something?” Anastasia was admittedly astonished by his question. She didn’t think that the person he was fooling

“That’s Hayley.”

gasped.

expected Hayley to have gone under the knife and gotten all this work done just to look like her.

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