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Meanwhile, Hayley, who had arrived by Elliot’s side, suddenly held her forehead and hissed.
“What’s wrong?” Elliot rose up and examined her.
Just then, Hayley seemed to hear the sound of a lady’s high heels tapping on the floor, and coupled with the fact that it was almost the time that she had expected, she pretended to scowl in pain. The very next second, she fell into Elliot’s embrace.
He supported her with his long arms, so she took the opportunity to wrap her arms around his waist. “Elliot, I feel so dizzy…”
“Let me help you to the couch so that you can rest.” He attempted to keep his distance from her, but she tightened her arms around him and refused to let go. Then, she raised her head with her eyes shut and mumbled, “Elliot, is there something in my eye? Could you check it for me? It hurts!”
Upon hearing that, Elliot narrowed his eyes and leaned in to take a look.
At that moment, the door of the president’s office flung open. Anastasia didn’t knock the door before she opened it, as she thought that Elliot would be waiting to have a word with her.
As soon as the door was opened, what came into view was a man and a woman intimately hugging each other. Elliot leaned in at Hayley’s face, while the latter raised her head with her eyes shut, as if she was eagerly waiting for the man’s kiss.
Anastasia’s eyes widened. In the end, she stared at them for a couple of seconds before she calmly
said, “Sorry for intruding. Please carry on.”
With that, she turned on her heel and slammed the door behind her before she left.
All that had happened in mere seconds, and it was so fast that Elliot didn’t manage to return to his senses. When he finally made sense of the situation, he immediately released his grip on Hayley’s shoulder. Forcefully removing her arms that were around his waist, he urgently declared to her, “I’ll get Rey to send you to the hospital.”
Thereafter, Elliot pushed her away from him. It wasn’t a hard push, in fact, but Hayley went along with the force and deliberately fell and slumped on the floor.
“Ah!” she shrieked.
Elliot, who had barely arrived at the door with large strides, looked behind and saw that Hayley had fallen. He clenched his fists, but he still turned back to help her up.
“Are you alright?”
“I’m fine. Elliot, what’s wrong?” Hayley asked, intentionally feigning innocence.
“Nothing,” he replied, then used the landline and commanded, “Rey, come over.”
Soon, Rey knocked on the door and entered the room, and Elliot ordered, “Send Miss Seymour to the hospital for a checkup and then send her home.”
For Hayley, her plan had succeeded since she had reached her goal. The scene earlier must have made Anastasia misunderstand that Elliot was going to kiss me!
“Elliot, I want to have dinner with you,” Hayley mumbled begrudgingly.
“I’m not available tonight. Let’s have dinner some other time.” After he said that, he grabbed his phone that was on the desk and hurriedly strode out. He seemed to be in a fluster.
Before long, Elliot showed up at the Department of Design. When he arrived at Anastasia’s office, he saw that her seat was empty, so he asked Grace, who was outside, “Where’s Anastasia?”
“Miss Tillman just got off work early. Is there anything you need from her, President Presgrave?” Grace asked nervously.
Elliot remained impassive and he casually replied, “No.”
Then, he strode off and he used his phone to give a certain woman a call on his way out.
At that moment, Anastasia was in a cab on the way to pick up her son. Upon hearing her phone ringing, she took her phone and glanced at the screen. The corner of her lips curling upward, she snorted and decided to not pick up the call.
The man stopped calling her when he failed to reach her with the first call. As Anastasia gazed at the bustling streets outside the window, she could not help but recall the image that she had seen earlier. There’s nothing going on between Elliot and me, so who he wants to share a kiss with should have nothing to do with me. Nonetheless, why am I feeling so mad for no reason? What’s wrong with him kissing Hayley? Plus, they have even done things that are more intimate than kissing, or perhaps it’s Hayley who has been satisfying all his serual desires all along. Otherwise, it would be abnormal for a 29-year-old man like him to not have any needs at all. Hence, Anastasia concluded that Hayley was Elliot’s current bedmate.
D*mn! How dare he force his kiss on me if that’s the case?! I’m so pissed right now!
When Anastasia picked her son up from the kindergarten, the little boy poked his head out from behind her. Taking a look around, he raised his little head to her and asked, “Mommy, where’s Mr. Presgrave? Why is he not here?”
“He’s not coming tonight. He has something else he needs to take care of,” Anastasia explained as she led Jared by his hand and walked out of the school compound. Just then, the boy’s eyes lit up in excitement. He broke away from her grip and cried, “Mommy, you lied to me! Mr. Presgrave is here!”
After he said that, he dashed in a direction. At that, Anastasia turned to look and spotted Elliot’s imposing figure.
From a dozen meters away, she was able to feel the sharp stare from his eyes that was as dark as night. Her expression fell and she stared back at him.
Doesn’t he have a date with Hayley? Why is he here now?
“Mr. Presgrave!” The little boy ran up to the man and jumped at him, and Elliot quickly spread his arms and picked the boy up in a movement that seemed particularly natural.
“Mr. Presgrave, Mommy said that you are very busy so you couldn’t come!” Jared said as he cocked his head to one side.
“I’ll still come and pick you up from school no matter how busy I am.” After Elliot said that, he extended his hand and caressed the boy’s head. “Let’s get in the car.”
Elliot knew that as long as he got the boy into the car, Anastasia would definitely follow along. Also, he had fixed something special in his car that day-a child car seat.
Anastasia initially planned to get Jared to take the cab together with her, but upon seeing him enter Elliot’s car, she had no choice but to walk over to them.
“I thought that you had a date? Why are you here then?” she muttered with a cold chuckle.
Instead of answering her, Elliot closed the door of the back seat and darted a cold look at her before he questioned in dissatisfaction, “Why didn’t you pick up my call?”
“Did you call me? I didn’t hear it.” Anastasia lied smoothly and she did not even blink.
Elliot knew that she didn’t pick up his call on purpose, yet there was nothing he could do but explain, “It was a misunderstanding. Something got into Hayley’s eye and I was just helping her to check her eye.”
However, Anastasia found his explanation ridiculous. “President Presgrave, why are you explaining it to me? There’s nothing for me to misunderstand since I don’t care what sort of relationship you have with Hayley.” At that, she flashed a bright smile at him.
Elliot’s expression was stiff when he heard that, and his gaze was as dark as night. At the moment, he was in an awful mood as frustration bubbled up inside him.
“Anastasia, let me repeat myself-Hayley and I are merely friends,” Elliot suddenly held her arms and announced in a domineering manner.
“President Presgrave, why are you explaining it so clearly to me? Your relationship with Hayley has nothing to do with me at all.” Anastasia scoffed in response, her gaze on him cold.
With that, she forcefully broke away from his grip, pulled open the car door to the back seat and entered the car.