“He’s human too. Why wouldn’t he d that easily?” Averie’s hair was messy due to the blowing wind and she tucked a lock of hair behind her ears. “Isn’t there a saying that only the good d young?” “Don’t misuse those sayings.” Averie felt a little cold at that moment because she had rushed out of the house without wearing a coat.
Mike was not wearing one either, and he was shivering from the cold too. “How about we hug each other to warm ourselves up?” he suggested. Averie glared at him. “Are all men this shameless? Do you guys have to verbalize your thoughts all the time?”
“Ooooh, someone’s angry! Did Elyette say something shameless to you? I can think of no other explanation for why you would lump all men into one category.” Averie pursed her lips and did not answer.
However, when she recalled Elyette’s words, she could feel as if a fire was burning in her heart and dispelling the coldness.
At the police station, Henry came as soon as he received a call from the authorities.
The first person he saw when he entered was Elyette, and he immediately lowered his head.
“This is the situation, Mr. Foster. Your driver set fire to the old mansion earlier tonight. Do you know anything about this?” a police officer asked Henry.
Henry shook his head. “Not at all. I gave him a severance payment a few days ago, and we haven’t been in contact since then.” After a pause, he continued, “I need to explain everything to my brother!”
The police officer glanced at Elyette and excused himself when he saw that Elyette did not object to Henry’s suggestion.
Henry walked up to Elyette and explained, “Elyette, please let Joseph go! He’s been my driver for more than half his life! He has been with me since he was still young! It’s because of his loyalty to me that he did what he did. I would’ve stopped him if I knew he was planning this.”
Elyette was unmoved.
“How about this, I’ll pay to repair and maintain the old mansion,” Henry tried negotiating. “I didn’t order him to do this. If my intentions were truly malicious, I would’ve burned your place instead of the old mansion, since it’s basically an empty house with nothing inside.” Elyette looked at Henry’s exhausted face and opened his thin lips to say, “I’ll believe you…for now. You need to restore the old mansion to its original state or I won’t let Joseph go.”
“Okay.” Henry’s expression was solemn. He looked like he had something else he wanted to say, but in the end, he merely sighed. “I’ll be going then if that’s all.”
The feud between the two brothers was a very sad sight.
As Henry left, Elyette looked at him from behind and was overwhelmed with compassion as he said, “You should keep the money from the house sale to yourself, Henry. Don’t let your useless son spend it all!”
Henry’s eyes turned red and he felt choked. “Cole isn’t just useless; he’s stupid as hell too. But at the end of the day, he’s still my son. I won’t be able to just wash my hands of him! Aren’t you a father too? You should understand how I feel.”
If Henry told Elyette that in the past, the latter would have found it difficult to understand what the former meant.
At that moment, he sympathized with Henry aed little. Elyette’s love for his three children was beyond the control of reason. He was never fixated on the idea that his three children had to be good people. He just wished for them to be healthy and safe.
Who knows what path they might take in the future? They may turn out to be mediocre at best, and stray down the wrong path at worst.
If one of his children did eventually go astray, could he be that cruel as to sever his ties with that child? Perhaps not.
Back at Starry River Villa, Averie took a shower and lay down on the bed, with Elyette’s low pitched voice echoing constantly in her mind.
Had that fire not happened, she would not have inadvertently revealed that she still had feelings for him.
Now that he knew about her feelings, she made herself seem a little too passive.
She unlocked her phone and texted Tammy to complain. (Hey, Tammy. Are you asleep? There was a fire in the old Foster mansion tonight. Did you see thed3 news?] Tammy replied after about five minutes. [I did.]
Averie’s emotions calmed down somewhat when she looked at the two-word reply. Tammy’s mood seemed to be off. Averie sent a message and asked, [Are you and Jun alright?] (Yeah. He didn’t touch me again after that past failure.] [I knew he won’t push you. He loves you very much.) [I love him too. The more time I spend with him, the more I feel like I can’t live without him.)
Tammy’s eyes were moist when she sent that message
Jun was so kind to her, but she could never love him as she did before. She always felt that she was broken and unworthy of him.
The next morning, Averie was woken up by her blaring cell phone. In a daze, she reached out blindly to find it and answered her call.
“Averie! Do you know where Tammy went? She wasn’t at home when I woke up this morning, and her phone was turned off when I tried calling her! I can’t find her anywhere right now! God, I’m going to lose my mind soon!” Jun said anxiously.
Averie sat up from the bed startled after being jolted awake by what she heard. “I have no idea what’s going on with her! She was fine when she slept last night.” Jun’s voice was low and choking as if he was about to cry.
“I have a feeling that she’s hiding on purpose! She definitely regrets it and doesn’t want to be with me anymore! We already agreed to remarry on the seventh of July this year…”
“I texted her last night and she told me she loves you very much,” Averie comforted, “She said that she’s finding it more and more difficult to be separated from you, so I’m confident that she doesn’t have any regrets. I’m sure she won’t want to break up with you either. She probably just went off to do something.”
“If that’s the case, why would she be hiding it from us?” Jun calmed down a little. “Could she have gone to see a psychiatrist?” “It’s not impossible.” Averie got off the bed. “Stay calm, Jun. I’ll find her.” “Where?” Jun could not figure out where Tammy could be. “I recommended a psychiatrist to her the other day, so I’ll check if she went there.”
“Thank you for the trouble. Please inform me as soon as you have any news about her. I’m worried sick right now.”
“I will.”
Averie tried calling Tammy after ending the call with Jun.
The voice prompt stated that she had switched off her phone. Averie opened the messages that they exchanged last night and read them again. She did not notice anything unusual when they texted each other the previous night, but as soon as she reread the messages, it was obvious that Tammy was unhappy.
There would usually be an influx of emojis if Tammy was in a good mood.
She did not post a single one of them in the previous night’s messages. Averie rued that she had overlooked Tammy’sed unhappiness. Tammy might not have gone and hid somewhere if only Averie had realized it the previous night.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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