Hunting for His EX-Wife

She was indeed overthinking things.

There was no way Elliot would do something like this just to keep her around, not with his stubborn and arrogant personality.

At this moment, Rose couldn’t quite describe her emotions. The discomfort and frustration in her heart only lasted for a moment before she pushed it aside. She suddenly shook off Elliot’s hand, luckily he still seemed dazed from the surpise earlier and let go easily. After freeing herself from him, Rose took two steps back and glared at him in anger. “Who’s playing games with you? I don’t have time for that!”

“It was you who bothered me at the airport, Mr. Harper! Not the other way around!”

He must be out of his mind.

Elliot’s expression darkened as he looked at Rose’s face filled with sarcasm, but before he could say anything, Lawrence interrupted him.

“Mr. Harper, considering your sincere attitude towards us, I think we can talk more about our cooperation.” Lawrence walked up a few steps to stand next to Rose while discreetly blocking Elliot from trying to grab her again.

Rose glanced sideways at Lawrence but didn’t speak a word.

Lawrence continued speaking, “Since Mr. Harper personally came all the way here to chase after us, it shows how sincere he is about working together.”Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

For a moment both Rose and Elliot remained silent.

They both knew what was really going on here.

“Not to mention the public apology video shown on such a large screen…” Lawrence smiled slyly, which made Elliot feel even more frustrated inside, but managed to control himself from lashing out physically against him.

It was clear to Elliot that Lawrence had intentionally provoked him with his words. However, as he looked at Lawrence’s smiling face, he was filled with so much anger that he almost couldn’t resist the urge to throw a punch. He managed to control his temper, but it wasn’t easy.

Elliot’s assistant had arrived at the airport long before the animated display on the big screen. When he saw the cartoon character that unmistakably resembled Mr. Harper, he was so shocked that he froze in place, wide-eyed and open-mouthed, struggling to catch his breath in disbelief.

This is simply too horrifying!

The assistant took a while to snap out of it before rushing to find Elliot’s location. Before he could even process what was happening, Lawrence spoke those words and all his confusion vanished in an instant. He came to his senses and approached with a smile, “Mr. Harper, so it’s true! You’re amazing, you managed to negotiate this kind of cooperation. Impressive…”

Elliot’s face turned grim as he looked at the assistant’s expression and immediately understood that he had seen everything. He also guessed why the assistant thought that way and glared at him fiercely while speaking in a cold voice, “Quickly go and remove the video from the airport! Tell everyone who filmed it around here to delete it too!”

The assistant was startled by this sudden outburst but quickly looked at Elliot’s expression which had become cold with eyes suppressing endless anger. His whole body shuddered with fear as he didn’t dare say anything else before running off to handle things.

Despite his anger, Elliot gave Lawrence a cold, disdainful glance and then turned his gaze away from him. He reached out to touch Rose but she tried to dodge him.

Facing her angry glare, Elliot smirked coldly,”What? Do you still want to run away?”

Before Rose could say anything, Elliot had taken two swift steps forward and, with a surprising agility, hoisted her onto his shoulder. He then began striding purposefully towards the exit of the airport, leaving Rose in shock.

“Elliot, what are you doing? Put me down! Ahh I’m dizzy!” There was no way Rose wouldn’t feel dizzy when her head was hanging downwards but even if she struggled desperately she couldn’t make Elliot pause for even one second, instead drawing more attention from people around them, making her face turn red so she just shut up.

Lawrence realized what was happening but Tom held him back saying quietly, “Elliot only has eyes for Rose.”

Lawrence calmed down after hearing that and decided not to chase after them anymore.

“Tom, take Sean abroad first since, there is still time for boarding now.” Lawrence thought carefully then suggested, “Since we’re going cooperate with Elliot anyway, I’ll stay for some time longer to help Rose, then we can leave together later.”

More importantly, he had received a message from Khalil. Khalil wanted him to stay and discuss a potential collaboration. Elliot had never truly wanted to leave in the first place, so without much hesitation, he agreed to stay.

Tom thought about everything that had happened in the past hour and couldn’t bring himself to leave. “Why should we go? I can’t stand the way Elliot treated Rose. Staying here could help her,” he said.

Lawrence looked at his watch, feeling helpless. “If you stay, there’s a chance Elliot will find out one day. It might be better to leave, just in case he finds out about Sean…”

Tom made up his mind not to leave and waved his hand dismissively. “Don’t worry, I’ll protect Sean. And even if Elliot finds out, what can he do? Sean is Rose’s child and my nephew – does he think he can just take Sean away? Besides, we have your help too.”

Tom winked at Lawrence with a teasing expression on his face, cutting off any further attempts to persuade him.

Lawrence nodded reluctantly and gave up trying to convince Tom otherwise.

“Where’s Sean?” Tom asked as he looked around for Sean. He hadn’t returned from the bathroom yet.

Sean suddenly appeared from the shadows and stood before them both. He had seen everything that had happened earlier – how Elliot was bullying his mother – but managed to restrain himself from intervening.

He knew that if Elliot saw him, it would only make things worse for Rose; besides, he wasn’t ready to accept Elliot as his father yet.

“Sean…” Tom breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the boy safe and sound but was interrupted by Sean before he could say anything else.

“Uncle… I saw what happened earlier… I’m not leaving! I want to stay here with Mommy so she won’t get hurt anymore! Let us stay!” Sean spoke resolutely with determination etched on his face.

Tom exchanged glances with Lawrence before ruffling Sean’s hair affectionately.”Good job! You’re staying with me and Lawrence then! We won’t leave your mom alone.”

Sean nodded eagerly in agreement.

So, the three of them, who had initially planned to leave, went back to the airport before the flight took off to refund their tickets and returned to their accommodations. In the end, none of them left.

As for Rose, who had been carried away by Elliot, she had no way of knowing any of this.