Room for You
Chapter 165

Chapter 165

“She's so generous. She shared such expensive flowers with the entireoffice”

At that point, Elliot paused in his tracks and his handsome facesignificantly darkened. He strode back toward the direction of theworking area and instantly, he saw that every single vase of all of thestaff in the office was adorned with a stalk of red rose. From hisobservation, it was in fact the imported roses that he had carefullyhand-picked from the florist before his morning meeting. That womanjust gave it away after taking a glance at it?!

His handsome face was as cold as ice and there was an annoyed look inhis eyes. He turned around and walked back toward the meeting room.Subsequently, he yanked open the door and hollered toward thewoman inside, “Anastasia, come and see me in my office.” After he hadsaid that, he added, “Now.”

His tone of voice caused everyone in the meeting room to tense up asthey directed slightly sympathetic looks at the woman specificallymentioned by Elliot. Deep down, they thought to themselves, What sortof major mistake has she committed this time? Why is the big bossusing such a commandeering tone of voice?

Slightly shocked, Anastasia collected her belongings and got out of herseat. Then, she walked out and shut the door to the meeting roombehind her. “President Presgrave, is there something urgent?”

“Let's talk in my office.” He spoke through clenched teeth and strodeon ahead toward the direction of the elevator.

Meanwhile, Anastasia was quite confused. How did I offend himanyway? Is it because of the suggestion for that patisserie earlier on?But I didn't insist on it, though! It's entirely up to him!

In the elevator, Anastasia could clearly feel the tense vibe in the air andshe glanced at the tall, strapping man next to her who had his armscrossed. He seemed quite angry at the moment.

“How's your gastritis? Are you feeling better now?” She took the chanceto express her concern.

However, Elliot continued to ignore her and as soon as the elevatordoors slid open, he strode out immediately with his long legs. As forAnastasia, she trailed behind him awkwardly.

The moment she entered Elliot's office, she saw him turn around all of asudden and his tall, well-built figure approached her. Frightened, shetook a step backward but she found her back hit against the door.Meanwhile, he placed both of his hands by each side of her shouldersas he held her captive against the door.

“Anastasia Tillman, do you actually dislike the flowers I gave you somuch?! Why did you share it with the others just like that?!" Elliot'sdeep, dark eyes were clearly smoldering with anger.

In response. Anastasia blinked her eyes a few times. Oh-so he’s madabout this!

“You sent me a lot of flowers but I don't know how to maintain them, soI shared them with the others in the oflice. That's much better thanhaving the flowers wither in my hands, right?” Anastasia tried hard tocome up with an excuse, but it sounded quite feeble.

“I hand-picked every single stalk of the roses today, so how dare youwaste my efforts like that?!” Elliot's warm breath hit the skin on herface, and he looked quite angry to the point that he seemed to beabout to devour her.

Shortly after that, he did exactly that. He leaned forward and bitAnastasia with his thin lips just below her clavicle underneath her shirt.At that moment, Anastasia had her guard down so she yelped out inpain and surprise. “Ah!”

After Elliot had bitten her, he continued to stare at her with a sullenlook on his face. “This is just a minor punishment. I won't let you off thehook so easily next time if you disregard my gift again.”

In response, Anastasia reached out to shove him before retortingconfidently, “Well, I could always give you back a bouquet of flowers!”"Yes, it is possible to pay me back with another bouquet of flowers, butare you able to compensate for the effort I put into it?” Elliot spoke upin a hoarse voice and his expression was quite upset.

Meanwhile, Anastasia was lost in thought for a moment, but she thenpushed him aside insistently. “You know that I'm not going toappreciate your gifts, so you should just stop giving me anything fromnow on. Otherwise, you're surely going to be upset again if I get rid ofit”

Suddenly, Elliot took two steps backward and he continued to stareintently at her with his deep, dark eyes. His brows were furrowed andhe looked as if his feelings

were hurt.

Anastasia's eyes met his and she suddenly realized that her words weretoo scathing, At that moment, she apologized to him. “I'm sorry. Iapologize if my words hurt your feelings.”

Instantly, the coldness dissipated from Elliot's eyes and there seemed tobe a glimmer of warmth that shone through. However, he maintained ademanding tone of voice as he commanded, “Anastasia, I don’t wantmy efforts to be cast aside like trash again.”

Feeling slightly stunned, Anastasia pulled open the door and merelyresponded, “Then you'd better not send me any gifts. I'll still choose tocast anything that you give me aside.”

At that, the man left in the office stood there with a defeated look onhis handsome face. He remained silent for a short while before walkingoff to stand in front of the full-length windows. His elongated andstrapping figure exuded loneliness as he was basked under the dusklight from outside.