When His Eyes Opened (full chapter)

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

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…

his cigarette in

her lips

room but walked to the dining room because she was

to eat,

looked calm and nonchalant as if it were someone else and

immediately prepared dinner for

table, pulled out her phone, and saw a series of

be that into me either, but said that we should go out for dinner next time, probably because

give him much spending money! How could

weekend! I have to get to the bottom

replied: (Long story. I’ll tell you once I’ve

away after receiving

clenched her

living room and noticed Elliot was

would hear everything if she talked on the

text: [I can’t talk

his shower that night, Elliot paced back and forth in his room in a gray, silk