The entire hall broke into pandemonium!
Up on the podium, Elliot's ears turned red.
He knew that Avery was speaking out of rage, but he still had a strange feeling in his heart.
However, this was a public setting, and he could not turn her into the target for scrutiny.
"Come up here, Avery Tate," Elliot said, then stepped off the podium and asked the students at the front row to move back a row.
He had Avery sitting in the front row all by herself. Without anyone next to her, there would not be any more arguments.
After Avery took a seat in the front row, she shot a glare at Elliot. Then, she pulled out her phone and texted the vice president right in front of him.
[Elliot Foster is here too. Why didn't you tell me beforehand?]
The vice president: [You wouldn't have gone if I told you about it. I spent forty-five thousand on that course. I couldn’t just let that money go to waste.]
Avery: [Can I just send you the forty-five thousand dollars and leave tomorrow?]
The vice president: [Huh? Do you really not want to see him? Or is he giving you a hard time? Come back if it really is that hard for you to be there! You don’t need to pay me back. I'm so sorry!]
Avery gradually grew calm after she read the vice president's reply.
Elliot was not giving her a hard time. "Looks like he did not trick me into coming here, so why am I attacking him?" thought Avery.
She took a deep breath and prepared herself to sink into the lecture when she caught sight of her pink suitcase next to him. That suitcase instantly tossed her reason out the window.
She really wanted to get her suitcase back.
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