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Avery suddenly received a text message from an unknown number, but its contents sounded oddly familiar.
[The bodyguard will pick you up at 4 p.m.)
The text was signed “Elliot Foster”.
Did this unfamiliar phone number belong to Elliot?
Why was the bodyguard picking her up?
“Did you hear what I said, Avery? There’s a recital this afternoon…” Tammy said as she reached out to pinch Avery’s cheek.
“What time is the recital?” Avery asked as she put her phone away.
She suddenly felt hot and took a big gulp of water. “Four thirty,” Tammy answered. “It’s your favorite piano virtuoso, Ricardo!”
Avery lifted her hand and massaged her aching temples, then said, “I really want to go! Really! But I have something to do at four!”
“What is it? Can’t you just cancel or something?’
“I can’t.” Tammy rolled her eyes, then said, “I get it! It’s your husband, isn’t it?”
Avery covered her face with her hands. Her silence was a confirmation.
“Why do you care so much about him anyway? Who is he? Is he more important than I am? Can’t you just ditch him and come to the recital with me?” Tammy huffed. “Of course, you’re more important, but I’m a little afraid of him.”
“What’s there to be afraid of? Is he going to beat you up if you don’t follow his every whim?”
Avery took another gulp of water.
“You’re such a wimp! You won’t even tell me who he is. Serves you right, getting bullied by him!”
Tammy felt bad for Avery’s situation, but she could not help but be furious at her cowardice.
The bodyguard picked Avery up from campus at four in the afternoon.
The car stopped at the car park of the Philharmonic Hall twenty minutes later.
Avery felt lightheaded as the bodyguard led her into the concert hall. “Elliot wants to take me to a recital?”
“No idea,” the bodyguard shrugged.
Avery took a deep breath and glanced at her surroundings.
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If her memory served her right, the recital that Tammy mentioned earlier was this exact one!
However, she had declined Tammy’s invitation.
In the end, she found herself here anyway!
The only thing was that she was here with Elliot instead.
She would be mortified if she bumped into Tammy in the concert hall.
As her palms began to sweat profusely, she prayed that she would not run into Tammy.
It was impossible to end up being seated close to each other in such a large concert hall, right?
Chad reserved the whole front row for Elliot.
Avery saw him the second she walked into the hall.
He was sitting by himself. He sat ramrod straight, and he emanated arrogance.
Since the concert had not yet begun, he was looking at his phone.
Avery felt as if her feet were glued to the ground, and she could not move.
Elliot stood out too much!
What made him want to invite her to a recital?
Did he forget about how he insulted her relationship with Cole the night before?
She had talked about how art was a wonderful thing, but he had called it a joke.
“What are you standing around for? Move!” snapped the bodyguard when he noticed Avery standing still.
“I’m a little cold… Could I borrow your jacket?” Avery asked politely as she glanced at the bodyguard’s black suit jacket.
The bodyguard’s expression was cold as he unbutton his jacket, revealing a plethora of weapons.
Avery’s ankles turned weak at the sight, and she quickly rushed over to Elliot.
When she reached his side, she hesitated for two seconds, then sat down two seats away from him.
1 sec
Elliot stared at the empty seats between them and frowned.
Was she avoiding him?
“It’s a little warm in here…” Avery explained.
The bodyguard who was sitting on the other side of Elliot snapped, “What are you playing at? Didn’t you just say you were cold?!”
Avery took a deep breath, then said awkwardly, “Why do you always talk so much? The bodyguards I see o n TV always keep their mouths shut. Can you just focus all of your energy on protecting your boss?”
The bodyguard was baffled.
This infuriating woman!
Elliot glared at the bodyguard and said, “Sit further away.”
The bodyguard instantly shot up and moved down the row from them.
Avery felt her breathing even out.
She took another deep breath to try to calm herself down.
Suddenly, an idea popped into her head.
She took off her coat, folded it neatly, and placed it on the seat between her and Elliot.
She unfastened her ponytail and tried her best to cover her face with her hair.
This way, as long as Tammy did not show up in front of her, she would not be able to see her face.
Elliot watched her coldly. He was trying to read her.
Did she take off her coat to show off her figure?
Did she undo her hair to flaunt her femininity?
It was obvious to him that she was teasing him.
“Avery…” Elliot began to say.
“Don’t talk to me!” Avery hissed as she continued to cover her face with her hair. “My friends are here, too. I don’t want them to know I’m here!”
Elliot’s lips pursed into a thin line, and his jaw tightened. The calmness in his eyes had vanished.
Elliot felt like a joke.
Why did Avery not want to be discovered by her friends?
Was it that embarrassing for her to be seen with him?
The recital began soon after, and Avery calmed down.
It was a good thing that Tammy did not see her!
She wondered where she was seated.
She wanted to turn and look around, but reason stopped her from acting rashly.
Tammy was at the recital with another friend and was seated in the fifth row.
“Who’s that on the first row? Three people taking up all those seats. What a waste!”
Tammy was complaining to her friend who was scrutinizing the row of nearly empty seats.
“Probably someone rich! We’re on the fifth row and the tickets cost over a hundred and fifty bucks, so I bet first row tickets are expensive! It looks like they reserved the whole row. You can tell right away that that guy in the middle is super-rich. The woman next to him is either his daughter or his lover. The muscular guy on the other side is definitely his bodyguard.”
Tammy agreed with her friend’s analysis.