CHAPTER 471: DARING

"Seriously?"

Grey laughed at her boldness.

Though, he wasn't surprised.

Avery has always been daring and bold."

Are you saying you are going to force me to work with you?"

Avery watched him for a moment.

"Why did you save me?"

Grey couldn't believe it.

"Are you going to use that against me? That rescuing you would be the death of me?"

"Why don’t you admit it?"

She stressed in a voice higher than her normal one.She took three steps closer to Grey to fill the gap in front of them.

"Why don’t you tell me that you didn't want to work with me because you are scared?" Grey huffed.

"Scared of what?"

"Why don’t you tell me about it? Then maybe I can understand and let you off," she muttered.

"You can't force me, Avery.That's not possible and you know that," Grey said stubbornly, anger growing in him now.

Avery watched him for another moment before she eventually looked away.

"How close are you with Maximo? You guys seem to be as close as friends which brings me to the fact that he lied to me about your position in his company," she met his gaze for a few minutes of silent communication.

"You weren't working in the company to begin with.You are just friends with the CEO," she explained much to Grey's surprise.

Grey couldn't talk for a few minutes.He was dumbfounded.

"How?"

"Follow me, and I will show you," she turned around and entered her room.

Grey hesitated for a few minutes, still shocked before he walked inside.

"I find you weird, David.And it doesn’t matter if you will work for me or not, I can always find things about you if I really want it," she walked to Grey and stretched out a file to him which Grey collected.

Grey flipped through the pages and perused it.

"I asked some employees about you the day that Maximo told me that you work in his company and I found out that none of the workers knew you.And that was because you never worked in the company," Avery stepped back.

"I plan to dig deep into this.Who knows, you might be a hardened criminal and I might be doing the government a favor by helping them to apprehend you."

"Seriously?" Grey couldn't stop a chuckle.

"Did you think I would let you do this if I was a hardened criminal? You aren't even scared of anything." Avery smiled.

"You wouldn't have saved me if you wanted to kill me."

"Well," Grey shrugged briefly.

"That was before I discovered you knew all this.I can decide to kill you at this moment," he threatened.

Avery cleared her throat meaningfully.

"If you wanted to do that, you would have done it a long time ago.We are the only ones in this room.It will be easy for you, won't it?"

Grey made a sly smile.

"How did you know I’m not giving the idea a thought already?"

Avery's eyes went wide with shock and Grey had to bit back the urge to laugh.

"I’m_I’m sure Maximo wouldn't let you kill me!"

She stammered fearfully.

Eventually, Grey managed a smile.

"This is very funny.Maximo told me you were a businesswoman.I didn’t know you were a comedian as well.I can’t believe you are willing to work with a criminal."

Avery took a step forward unconsciously.

"See? You just called Maximo by his first name which means I was right!"

Grey watched her for another moment.

"You were, as a matter of fact.But there’s something important you are missing," he took a step closer, and his face shifted into a dark frown.

"As you've deduced, I'm a criminal and I work with Maximo on a personal level.I'm dangerous and I've killed people with my bare hands.I can't say I’m innocent.You wouldn't want to build a business with someone like me.So, forget about all this," he advised.

"Well," Avery started quickly. Exclusive © content by N(ô)ve/l/Drama.Org.

"You killed some people today to save me.That isn’t considered as being wicked or being a criminal.You did the right thing, you saved me."

Grey clasped his hands together for her.

"Nice one, Avery.You are really working so hard but it’s a capital NO.I will never work with you.Besides, I don't owe you anything.You should be grateful I saved you but that doesn't make me a good person.Avoid me at all costs, Avery.It's a warning."

"Or what?"

Avery raised skeptical brows and waited.

"I will pay you more than you can ever dream of earning.I will pay you millions of dollars.Just work for me," she beseeched softly.

Avery has been thinking so hard about a couple of things.

Though she knew that Grey was dead but she couldn't stop thinking it was her fault.

She couldn't stop thinking she could have stopped it.She had been thinking a lot about his death and when she saw David, she suddenly felt at peace.

Maybe David would let her find her inner peace.

Maybe she would eventually be able to forgive herself for everything she had done to Grey when he was still alive.

Though, she couldn't help but think there was something else to David that she didn't know.

And yes, the two personality looks so different, yet the same.

Grey was always calm and reserved but the man in front of her was a criminal and he had no problem admitting to it.

Yet, Avery felt the willingness to proceed.

She would do anything to make sure David works for her.

Grey scoffed.

"I'm not going to change my mind."

"You should, David, because I will be releasing the news of you by tomorrow morning, and unless you would like to stop me by killing me tonight.That should be easy for you to do right?" she taunted, folded her arms dramatically, and waited for his response.

Grey didn't know what to do.