Chapter 69


    Chapter 69


    Hayley looked at Harriet with her gray hair, which gave off an aura of a domineering matriarch of the


    house. Thus, she didn’t dare to misbehave in front of the old madam. Soon, she walked up to


    Harriet and politely greeted her. “Greetings, Old Madam Presgrave. My name is Hayley Seymour.


    I’m your grandson’s girlfriend.”


    Harriet frowned and asked in surprise, “You’re Elliot’s girlfriend?”


    “Well, Elliot and I haven’t dated long enough for me to drop by and say hi, so I’m sorry about that,


    Old Madam Presgrave.” Hayley acted like she was beating herself up.


    Harriet had always known that Elliot didn’t like her arrangements, which made her wonder whether


    Hayley was behind the reason why her grandson didn’t want to marry Anastasia. “Hayley, can you


    tell me how you came to know Elliot?” The old madam sized Hayley up, noticing her ordinary


    appearance as she was also able to tell that Hayley wasn’t from a wealthy family.


    However, the biggest question that bothered her was whether Elliot was dating Hayley.


    When Hayley kept her head down and pursed her lips in silence, a curious Harriet then asked,


    “What’s wrong? Why are you being so quiet?”


    Hayley bit her lips and looked at the old madam. “It’s embarrassing.”


    “Why? What could be embarrassing? Just tell me the story.” Harriet’s curiosity grew even stronger.


    Hayley then pretended to muster her courage and shared about the incident that happened five


    years ago with Harriet. Since she was able to guess how Anastasia and Elliot’s intimacy had


    happened, she managed to tell the story, as if she was the one who experienced it herself. Upon


    hearing Hayley’s story, Harriet was left with her eyes wide open as she couldn’t believe her


    grandson was responsible for taking away ady’s virginity


    “The watch was the clue that helped Elliot look for me before he told me he’ll make it up to me for


    the rest of his life.”


    Harriet’s eyes were filled with sympathy after she heard Hayley’s story. After all, she reckoned


    Hayley deserved her sympathy for having sacrificed her virginity in exchange for her grandson’s life.


    “Hayley, I’d like to apologize to you on Elliot’s Copyright N?v/el/Dra/ma.Org.


    behalf. Besides, I’ll see that he makes it up to you.”


    The old madam ced herself in Hayley’s shoes and was able to empathize with the youngdy as


    a woman herself. Well, Hayley was probably 19 when that happened to her. That was when ady


    was in her golden years, yet something like this befell her. I bet she must have suffered from it a lot.


    “Have you had breakfast, girl?” she asked in a concerned manner.


    “No, I haven’t…” Hayley shook her head.


    “Somebody! Please prepare breakfast.” Harriet ordered her maids while Hayley kept her head down


    with acent look that shed across her face. Deep down, she believed the positive change


    in Harriet’s attitude was a sign that her ce was getting more important in the Presgrave Family.


    Meanwhile, Anastasia was going through some files in her office at Bourgeois when her phone


    rang. She then picked it up and asked, “Hello, who is speaking?”


    “I’m waiting for you at the door. Get down here now,” Elliot spoke with a voice so deep and


    charismatic that no other man could speak like him.


    She held her breath for a split second when memories of the man forcefully kissing her vividly


    haunted her and flooded her mind. At the thought of that, she felt reluctant to see Elliot. Thus, she


    turned the man’s invitation down. “I’m busy today, so I’m not going to your grandmother’s house.”


    “Are you going toe down, or do I have to go up there to get you myself? Take your pick,” the


    man replied unhappily.


    Anastasia bit her lips, realizing it wasn’t right for her to renege on her words. Therefore, she packed


    her stuff and grabbed her purse before leaving the office. When she arrived downstairs, she was


    greeted by the sight of a ck sedan. Then, she opened the car door and sat inside as the man


    wearing a ck suit gave off an intimidating aura.


    Not long after Anastasia entered the car, she looked the other way and set her eyes outside the


    window while feeling a rush of adrenaline all over her body as soon as she recalled Elliot’s


    unexpected reaction the night before.


    On the other hand, Elliot fixed his gaze on thedy’s nk while starting the car engine and driving


    away from thepany. For the next few moments, the car’s interior was shrouded in silence until


    he suddenly elerated on the highway. Frightened by that, she anxiously held onto her seatbelt


    and screamed in horror,


    “Elliot, the speed limit here is 50 miles per hour!”