When His Eyes Opened (Avery and Elliott)

Chapter 42 

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-”

precisely because all he thinks about is getting into a woman’s pants that

been this mature and successful? When I was fifteen, I liked guys who were cute. When I was sixteen, I liked guys with good grades. At seventeen, I was into basketball players. I liked talented guys when I was eighteen… I loved Cole. It’s all in the past, and I might hate him now, but

as he snapped his cigarette in

pursed her lips and stood

did not return to her room but walked to the dining room because she was

to eat, Mrs. Cooper?”

someone else and not her that

prepared dinner for

the dining table, pulled out her phone, and saw a series of text

He’s a little too soft for me. He didn’t seem to be that

[He said his parents don’t give him much spending money! How could he possibly have two hundred million? Did

have to get to the bottom of this! Also, why did you have to

(Long story. I’ll tell you

Avery right away after

hand clenched

room and noticed Elliot was

everything if she talked on

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,