Avery gave Elliot a quick peck on his thin lips and pushed him away. "You have a call! I'll change into something else and put the wedding dress away."He took out his cell phone from his pocket and answered it when he saw the incoming call."Mr. Foster, Henry brought Adrian to do a DNA test," Elliot's subordinate said. "I think he has ulterior motives for doing this. He knows that Adrian is his younger brother and he's already taken him away from you, so there really isn't any reason for him to do the test."Elliot glanced at Avery.She was looking in the mirror while unfastening the strings of the dress on her back."Keep an eye on them and report everything to me at the first instance," he said before ending the call."Who was it?" Avery asked after seeing that he had hung up the phone."Henry brought Adrian to do a DNA test. And since you were worried about Adrian, I had my men keep my eyes on them." He strode behind her and helped her untie the strings."Oh. Did Henry ask
Over at Starry River Villa, Mrs. Cooper placed an envelope in front of Avery."Would you like me to open it for you, Avery? Or do you want to open it yourself?" asked Mrs. Cooper.Avery picked up the envelope and carefully read the sender's information. The envelope came from a small country she was unfamiliar with. She opened the enveloped and pulled out a postcard.The moment she saw the postcard, Wesley's face appeared in her mind."Is it from Wesley?" asked Mrs. Cooper. "Is it the same address as before?"Avery shook her head. "It's not the same address. Elliot was planning on checking out the address the last postcard came from after the wedding, but he moved to another country again.""Is he traveling the world?!" Mrs. Cooper said with furrowed brows.Avery carefully looked through the postcard.It was a handmade postcard with a drawing of a bride and groom on it."I never knew he was this good at drawing," she mumbled softly. "I wonder how he's doing right now. Ther
"Of course, I can! But this has nothing to do with whether or not I wish you well. It's up to the both of you to keep things loving and happy! I wasn't the one who wished for your constant bickering in the past now, was I?" laughed Mike. "You don't have to worry about Hayden. He's pretty much settled down over there now.""Did he say anything to you in secret?" Avery asked.Mike chuckled softly and looked as if he had heard a good joke. "Do you think your son is the type of person to reveal his secrets to others? He barely says two sentences to you, and you are his mother. He doesn't speak to others at all, okay? The first night he was at the new school, the teacher actually asked me if he had a speaking disability."Avery was shocked. "Didn't you say he was settled down?!""He is! I asked his teacher about it, and she said that she and the other students are used to him now. She guaranteed that he won't get bullied. Doesn't that count as him being settled down?" Mike let out a hea
"She's a good cook and makes me whatever I want to eat. She's very good to me.""She can also knit. The sweater she knitted me is better than anything that you could get at a store."She cheers me up when I'm unhappy."She takes me out on dates when I'm happy. You should all know that I've always been a boring person, but she's never held that against me."When I'm sick, she would stay up all night and take care of me with devotion. She's an outstanding mother, entrepreneur, and an amazing wife."…It was as if Elliot had too much to drink and was on a drunken ramble. Avery was in a daze from his praise and wanted to dig a hole and hide inside it.She had never thought of herself as someone that extraordinary.She suspected that Elliot was describing his dream wife."Why are you so talkative today, Elliot?" She poured him a glass of juice in hopes that he would calm down.Elliot took a sip of juice and got even more excited. He fixed his deep-set eyes on Avery, then asked, "W
"Listen, Elliot. Even if you spout all those wild exaggerations about me out there, I would never become someone like that." Avery lay down on the bed, then said, "At the very least, I'm never knitting a sweater again.""They don't know you. I just wanted them to know that you didn't climb any ladders to get to me." Elliot wrote down all of his passwords on the piece of paper, then handed it over to her. "For your perusal, Honey."Avery accepted his reasoning.She picked up the piece of paper, went through it in detail, then noticed something that stood out."Is the 'AT' at the beginning of your social media password my initials?""That's right. The pin to my credit card is Layla's birthday," he said. "The two of you are the most important women in my life."Avery's cheeks flushed. Then, she asked, "Are your sons not important?""Not relatively as important." Elliot sat by the bed, then added, "You and Layla are much more thoughtful. Our sons just get angry at me all the time."
"Give Master Elliot a call, Avery. Ask him to get someone to check it out," suggested Mrs. Cooper. "Why would Cole come to such a secluded place? I bet he's got something up his sleeve and wants to cause a scene tomorrow.""Okay. I'll let him know when I see him later.""Listen, Avery. Henry might look like a good man, but he really isn't," Mrs. Cooper said as she held Robert with a stern expression on her face. "Don't think that Cole turned into a bad apple all by himself. He was influenced by his parents. His mother was a monster, but his father isn't that far off. Those who sleep in the same bed wouldn't be that different, after all."Avery pondered this for a moment with furrowed brows, then said, "I vaguely remember how Cole tried to use me to get his hands on Elliot's inheritance back when he was in a vegetative state. I doubt he came up with such a despicable plan by himself!""That's right! Didn't Cole come to see Master Elliot after he woke up? Master Elliot threw a huge f
Soon after, the bodyguard that was sent to search for Cole returned."Sir, I've looked around a few shops in the area but didn't find Cole Foster.""Leave it," Elliot said."Yes, Sir. I'll get the team to guard the resort's entrance. I guarantee we won't allow anyone insignificant to enter.""Good."When Avery stepped out of the shower of the resort villa and saw Tammy holding Robert, she felt slightly bewildered."Did you bring Robert back?""That's right! Someone was smoking out there, so Elliot asked me to bring Robert back to you when he saw me," Tammy said. "I'm guessing that the man who was smoking couldn't stand Elliot any longer! Do you know what Elliot was doing the whole time he was holding Robert out there? He was praising Robert to the moon. It was as if he would never run out of words to describe how amazing Robert is."Avery held back her laughter."Have you noticed that Elliot's been in unusually high spirits the past couple of days? Didn't he sing your praises
"I am." There was no reason for Avery to hide her true feelings in front of Elliot. "I'm afraid that our peaceful lives will be ruined. This has been the happiest time since we've been together. I don't want anything to ruin it, but I know it definitely will be.""Cole would not show up here for no reason."He and Henry must have some sort of scheme," thought Avery. Avery had a strong feeling that Henry would reveal all of Elliot's secrets tomorrow.Henry chose tomorrow to do this because the resort will be the most crowded place at the time.All major media outlets would be present, so revealing things tomorrow would have the biggest impact."Our lives won't be ruined as long as you and the children are by my side." Elliot's voice was low and hoarse but filled with magnetism."I know things won't change between us, but I don't want you to have to suffer such major scrutiny. Even if the truth is exposed, and a majority of people feel the same as me and don't think you were in t