Chapter 43

That B*****d CEO

In just mere moments, the two grew closer and the distance between them vanished steadily.

In her drunken stupor, Eliana opened her bleary eyes and saw shadows lurking around her blurred
vision.

Despite her haziness, one thing remained clear: the bright, vivid gaze of a single man, shining like
blessed light within creeping darkness.

His gaze, so deep and bottomless… They were Maurice’s eyes.

Anger rushed through her veins and shot up straight to her head.

Struck by a sudden inspiration of fury, Eliana rose with angry determination and pounced on Maurice
like a scorned tigress.She pinched his neck, digging her fingers into his flesh as she roared a mighty
yell, "You absolute b*****d!"

Her unexpected fit of fury caught the shocked Maurice off guard.

Unable to react in time, Maurice found himself pushed to the sofa.



As he fell, he instinctively reached for Eliana and held her firmly so as to prevent her from falling with
him.

Eliana ended up straddling on top of Maurice, ready to launch her attack.

But at the most crucial second, she froze in confusion.




She stared at him, blinking her eyes, and mouthed, "Preston? Wait… Why is it you? Where’s that guy?"

"Eliana… You’re drunk."

"No! I saw him just now! I really did! Where did he go? Where is he?!"

Eliana rubbed her eyes, still confused, and removed herself from Maurice.She stumbled to a halt, and
then realized that aside from her and Maurice, there was no one else in the private room.

The realization astounded her, she was so sure she saw him a moment ago… Maurice stared at her,
unable to make head or tail of her puzzling actions.

"Who?"

His question fell on deaf ears.

Eliana ignored him and promptly took out her phone, and then drunkenly went through her contacts list.

The alcohol had gone to her head, giving her repeated pangs of dizziness.

Her mind was clouded with a strange haze, and she couldn’t think straight.

For a long time she browsed her contacts, only to realize that she didn’t have Maurice’s number saved.

With that, she hopped to the closest thing she had: Corbin’s number.

All the while, Maurice watched her silently.

Her angry outburst reminded him of a temperamental cat, hissing and spitting with its fur standing up.It
was both amusing and endearing, to say the least.

Eliana waited for the call to connect.



The moment it did, she hollered at the phone with a roar that sent the entire room shaking.

"Hey!"

Corbin, at the other end of the line, was simultaneously confused and horrified.

"Corbin! It’s you, isn’t it? Listen up! Get… Get Maurice to answer the phone!"

"I… I beg your pardon?"

Corbin was understandably startled.

Eliana’s demand only served to further confuse him.

"Hey, why do you want to talk to Maurice so badly?"

Maurice quickly approached Eliana and held her shaking body steady, for fear her drunkenness would
lead her to falling to the floor.

Eliana leaned against his chest, overwhelmed by her dizziness.

She looked at him with a dissatisfied expression and pouted cutely, muttering crossly, "…I want to
curse that guy.I’ll curse that b*****d CEO roundly! How dare he take advantage of me when I was in
deep trouble? I’ll make him pay!"

Corbin listened to everything Eliana said from the other end, silent all the way.

Privately, he thought Eliana had a lot of guts for being able to say all that about Maurice.

"Preston! You’re great with words.Curse that b*****d for me! Help me do it!"



Eliana’s eyes snapped wide open in wrathful determination.She pressed her phone to Maurice’s ears,
excited.

Maurice, for his part, was rendered tongue-tied.

What should he say now? His hesitance went unnoticed by Eliana, whose eyes were shining with
eager expectation.

"You’re the only one I can rely on! If I’m really your friend, curse at him for me! Even just a bit is fine!"

Corbin was shaking in fear, but at the same time, he was also quite curious.How on earth would his
boss rebuke himself? Maurice’s eyes turned red as annoyance seeped in him.

Scowling, he clenched his teeth.

"You’re digging your own grave, Eliana!"

"Huh…? What do you…?"

Eliana stopped immediately as the alcohol finally got the better of her and struck her into a drunken
faint.Her body went limp as her consciousness faded, and she fell on Maurice.

Night soon bled into morning… Eliana slowly woke up, her eyes wide open.

Before she could do anything else, a sharp pain banged her head like the blow of a sledgehammer.

"Miss Pierce, you’re awake.Have some honey water.It’ll make you feel better."

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