He had gone and bought this many things after being provoked by Nathan.
Nathan had asked for fifteen million a month as an allowance.
Elyette had spent far less on Averie and the children in the span of a year.
Nathan mentioned that Elyette was so wealthy that he would never run out of money, so Elyette had decided to spend more on his children.
Seeing Elyette’s silence made Averie’s heart sink.She had chosen to trust him, but judging by the look on his face, she could tell that he was hiding something from her.
“Who exactly were you drinking with last night?”
Averie stared him directly in the eyes and lowered her voice.
“I don’t want to suspect you, Elyette, and I don’t want to argue with you in front of the kids either, but you have to give me a reasonable explanation, otherwise, how am I supposed to accept all these gifts?!”
Elyette glanced at the children and saw Layla standing next to the trunk while looking at them seriously.
Layla was concerned that her mother would be hurt, so she was observing the situation and was ready to attack Elyette if he dared to upset her mother.
“Darling, I am not fighting with your mom.”
Elyette directed an endearing smile toward his daughter.
Layla scowled in disbelief.
“Averie, I did lie to you last night.”
Elyette faced Averie and said, “But I didn’t wrong you in any way.I lied and said that I was out drinking with friends, but that wasn’t the truth.I was drinking alone last night.”
Averie was confused.
“Why would you lie to me? Why were you drinking alone? You said that you were ina good mood last night and that was a lie as well.You weren’t happy at all last night.”
“yeah.”
He stared at her doe-like eyes and pulled her into his embrace.
“I wasn’t upset because of us.I was just reminded that I don’t have any family that I can invite to the wedding and that made me a little depressed.”
Averie hugged him back tightly.
“It’s okay, we can invite more friends.”
“Yeah.I’m fine now.”
Elyette adjusted himself and let her go.
“I bought gifts for you and the kids to make you happy and to give me more motivation to make more money.”
“But you bought too much.”
Averie took his hand and walked toward Layla.
“If you buy us this many things every time you come over, there wouldn’t be enough space in my house for them.”
He proposed a solution.
“Then move to a bigger mansion.”
“The children and I have gotten used to this place, so we don’t want to move,” Averie said with resignation.
“Just keep your urge to shop in check! I know you are rich, but money can be used to elevate our personal lives, and it can also be used for good deeds.You can make donations to poor communities in the mountains or to non-profit organizations.”
“I am doing all that as well.”
He stepped back toward the trunk and moved more boxes out.
“I bought you jewelry.I know you think it’s too troublesome to wear them, but I like them on you.”
She opened the box and found multiple smaller boxes.
“Elyette, did you empty the shops?”
“I didn’t,” he said.
“I didn’t buy the ones that didn’t look good.”
Averie felt helpless.She knew she should be happy to receive such gifts, but she was not in the slightest bit happy.
Her jewelry cabinet did not have the space for this many new pieces.
“What did you buy Layla?”
She suppressed the urge to lecture him and asked.
“Mainly hair clips.There are some other things, but I’m not so sure what those are.They look flashy and seem like the kind of things little girls would like, so I bought those as well.”
The urge to lecture him rose again at his response.
“Did you buy gifts for the boys?” She asked.
“I bought toys and snacks for Robert.”
“But not for Hayden?”
She scanned the trunk carefully.
“I did.” He suddenly lowered his tone.
“Ohe”
Sensing the guilt in his voice, she asked, “What did you buy Hayden? Show me.”
He walked toward the back seat and opened the door to take a pile of handwriting practice workbooks out of the car.
Hayden’s class teacher had shown Hayden’s homework to Elyette during the birthday party, and Elyette had realized that his son’s handwriting was horrible.
Therefore, when he walked past the book store earlier, he bought the workbooks in hopes that his son’s handwriting would improve.
Averie burst out laughing at the workbooks.
“I will show him these tomorrow morning.If I show these to him tonight, he is going to be so angry that he won’t be able to sleep.”
Averie accepted the workbooks and went inside the house to put them away.
Once Averie was inside the living room, Layla whispered to Elyette, “Dad, why are you buying us so many gifts?”
“It’s because I’m earning so much money.If I don’t spend some, I will lose the motivation to make more money.”
Layla tried her best to process what her father said and said, “Oh, don’t worry, Dad, I will spend your money for you.”
Elyette received a message from the paternity center at eight o’clock the next morning.
He was having breakfast with Averie in the dining room when he got the message.He opened the message when he noticed the screen of his phone lit up.
He tapped on the link attached and saw the results of the paternity test.
Though it was merely a general analysis that could be different from the final result, there was a fifty percent chance that it was accurate.
Elyette had never been one to think that fate would favor those who did not believe in it.
“Result: According to the DNA analysis, the results support the conclusion that there was a paternal relation in the DNA combination between sample 1 and sample 2”
Shortly after, another message came in from the person in charge of the paternity test center.
[Mr.Foster, I will send you the refined result in five days.] Elyette suppressed the disgust he felt and replied calmly.
[Sure.]
“Elyette, I told Hayden that you had gotten him some gifts, but he refused to look at them,” said Averie when she noticed Elyette staring at his phone.
“Let’s just tell him that I was the one who bought the workbooks! Otherwise, he is probably not going to practice at all.By the way, how did you find out that he has bad handwriting?”
Elyette set his phone down to take a sip of milk to calm himself.
“During the kids’ birthday party last time, his class teacher said that he was doing well with his studies, but that he hasn’t worked on his handwriting.Averie was more informed in regard to the details about her children’s performance at school and said, “It’s not that he hasn’t worked on it.He seems devoted enough whenever I see him writing, his handwriting just comes out that way.Everyone has something that they are good and bad at.I talked to him about it before and gave up afterward because I didn’t want to affect his confidence.”
“Would it affect his confidence that I bought him workbooks, then?” Elyette’s expression darkened.
“I’ll just buy him another gift!”
“It’s fine.I’ll just tell him that I asked you to buy it.”
An idea happened upon her all of a sudden and she said, “That way, he wouldn’t be too angry about it.”
“Sure.You really are a smart one,” grinned Elyette, “By the way, I might be home a bit late tonight; if it gets too late, I won’t come over.”
“Okay.If you’re too busy at work, you should leave it to your vice president and the others for now.After our wedding, you will have more time,” said Averie.
The reason she did not get more involved in arranging the wedding was because she knew that Elyette was better at organizing things when compared to her.
He was better at judging the beauty of things, and he was meticulous when it came to details.
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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