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-”

a woman’s pants that his business is a mess,” said Elliot, cutting her off. “What you consider wonderful was nothing but a

seventeen, I was into basketball players. I liked talented guys when I

he snapped his cigarette in half; his eyes were cold. “Go back to

her lips and stood

room but walked to the dining

anything to eat, Mrs. Cooper?” she

looked calm and nonchalant as if it were someone else and not her that had just gotten into a fight with

Cooper immediately prepared dinner for

out her phone,

seem to be that into me either,

parents don’t give him much spending money! How could he possibly have two

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

story. I’ll tell you

right away after receiving

clenched her

living room and noticed Elliot was

everything if she

and sent Tammy a text: [I can’t talk right

back and forth in his