“Sure,” Averie said.
After a while, the children had eaten their fill and dragged Averie back into the house with them. Once they were inside, they remained on the first floor, playing, instead of heading up. The others could see them.
After half an hour, Averie took them up for a bath.
Meanwhile, the drinking contest between Mike and Chad ended with Mike’s defeat. He had failed to bring Chad down in the span of half an hour.
He had not expected Chad’s alcohol tolerance to improve to this extent.
After losing, everyone shouted for Mike to perform.
Elyette watched them with a lack of interest and set his glass down. He got up.
Tammy had been keeping an eye on him, and she nudged Jun when she saw Elyette rise from his seat.
Taking the hint, Jun hurried over and asked, “Elyette, are yoù heading back?”
Elyette pointed at the mansion. “I’m going to the bathroom.”
“Oh… Alright then!” Jun chuckled awkwardly and went back to Tammy. “Tammy, stop staring at him. He is going to the bathroom; it’s not like I can follow him, right?”
Tammy snorted and complained, “It’s all your fault! Why did you tell him that you are coming to Averie’s? Isn’t that like inviting the wolf into someone’s house?”
“You know that I can’t lie to him… Besides, I asked him for a favor today, and he treated me with kindness. How can I lie to him?” Jun explained. “You usually don’t call me along when you guys hang out, why did you invite me today?”
“I won’t invite you along next time!”
“Don’t be like that! Elyette wouldn’t follow every single time. I’m guessing he feels depressed and can’t quite deal with it himself, so—”
“So he came to pick a fight with Averie, right?”
“He hasn’t done anything so far, did he?” Jun defended Elyette and said, “He’s only drunk, and he did have some meat when he got here—”
“Yeah, and now that he has drunk and eaten, he is going to go looking for trouble,” said Tammy. “He is not going to the bathroom. He is going to look for Averie!”
Meanwhile, Averie had bathed the children and tucked them in. She was now in her own room. She was exhausted, and at that moment, a figure appeared before her.
Startled, she said, “You—”
Elyette strode toward her and shut the door, locking it from inside.
“Your house isn’t soundproof, so you can scream all you want if you want others here to watch. “He cornered and threatened her, looking at her face with bloodshot eyes.
Averie flushed. She had let her guard now. He could not be here only for dinner. “Aren’t you tired, Elyette?!” she hissed.
“Are you?” He grabbed her slim wrist and pulled her toward the bed. “You have to be in a good mood to ask your friends over for a barbeque. Are you tired because I am here?”
His fingers began working on the buttons of her jacket.
She grabbed his hand and said, “Elyette! Don’t do this in my house!”
“Why not?” He did not give her a chance to answer and said sternly, “Why can’t we do it in your house? Is it because you had other men in your bed before?”
Averie shoved his chest. “Because you are dirty!”
He froze at her words.
She thought that he was dirty because he had slept with Zoe.
She raced to the door, unlocked it, and told him to get out. He stared at the open door, walked toward it, and shut it.
“And you are not? You were pregnant with another man’s baby.” He locked the door and grabbed her by the waist, before lifting her up.
She had a C-section, and there was a scar across her abdomen. The last time they had been intimate he had frozen at the sight of the scar. He had tortured her for it. It was as though the scar was provoking him, mocking him. Averie had told him, that Layla was a test tube baby, and that she had gotten Layla by using the sperm she had gotten from a sperm bank.
Elyette blocked all the things that came out of Averie’s mouth, and he pressed down on her. She pushed at him; her arms separating them.
“Go shower! You reek of alcohol!” She turned her head away with a frown.
He saw the contempt on her face, and he grabbed her arm and dragged her toward the bathroom. “Let’s both take a shower.”
“I don’t want to shower with you!”
“Aren’t you just going to run away while I’m in the bathroom?” He had suspected that she was going to make her escape while he was taking a shower.
“This is my house! Where am I going to run to this late at night?!” she retorted.
“Then we are showering together!” He dragged her into the bathroom and closed the bathroom door.
Meanwhile, Mike was drunk in the yard, and because he was drunk, he had just realized that
Elyette had been gone for a while.
“Didn’t that jerk Elyette go to the bathroom? Why hasn’t he come back?”
Mike’s words had alerted Tammy, who was also drinking. “How long has he been gone?!”
Jun checked the time. “About an hour… Did he fall into the toilet or something?”
Tammy set her glass down and hurried inside the mansion. The others did the same and followed her.
There was no one on the first floor.
“Didn’t he go to the bathroom? There’s no one in the bathroom on the first floor!” Tammy said, “I told you that he wasn’t going to the bathroom, he went looking for trouble!”
“Tammy, quiet down. The kids might be asleep,” Jun reminded.
Tammy covered her mouth and walked toward the second room, while the others followed closely behind.
Tammy went to the children’s room to check if they were asleep. When they opened the door, a thin sliver of light from the corridor fell on the bed. Hayden opened his jewel-like eyes. He moved the blanket aside and immediately sat up at the sight of the group of people.
“Hayden…” Layla rubbed her eyes and got up.
Everyone else gasped, thinking, “Great! Now we’ve woken up the kids!”
Tammy apologized to the children with a blush on her face. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to wake you. We are looking for Elyette… I think he might be bullying your mom.” Both Hayden and Layla ran toward their mother’s room
“Mom!”
“Mom!”
The shouts of the two children echoed inside the mansion.
Inside the master bedroom, Averie heard her children shouting and tensed. She tried to escape from Elyette – who was on top of her. She could not break free.
“Elyette Foster! Let me go!” Tears began to well up in her eyes as she grew anxious.
He grabbed onto her wrists tightly. He had no intention of releasing her. “I’m not done!” His voice was low and tinted with annoyance. “Do you really believe that they need something from you?”
“It doesn’t matter when or why they are looking for me, all that matters is they need me!” She struggled to fight him off. Her eyes grew red with tears as she struggled against him.
He simply tightened his grip. There was no way she could escape if he was determined to keep her there.
Tears rolled down her cheeks, and her eyes slowly filled with resentment.
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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