Outside the door, Layla was about to burst into tears, and Tammy immediately lifted her up.
“Don’t cry, Layla! I just had a bit too much to drink and said the wrong thing.” Tammy carried her toward the children’s room and said, “Elyette isn’t bullying your mom… How could he, when all of us are here?”
Mike tested the doorknob to the master bedroom and realized that it was locked. He was frustrated, but he knew better than to barge in. So, he took Hayden into his arms and began walking back to the children’s room as well.
“Don’t be mad, Big H! I will guard your mom’s door! When that b*st*rd Elyette comes out, I’m going to punch him in the face!” Mike said to Hayden who was scowling. “You and your sister should go to sleep. You two have school tomorrow!”
Hayden wordlessly suppressed his anger.
Shortly after that, Tammy and Mike came out of the room after tucking the children in.
“Tammy Lynch, you drank too much! No matter what happens between Elyette and Averie, how could you get the kids involved?! They are still very young, and you can’t drag them into this!” barked Jun.
Tammy’s face reddened. “Why are you yelling at me?! Get Elyette out of there since you are so good at handling all this! All you jerks only know how to defend Elyette!”
“I didn’t defend that dirtbag!” Mike argued.
“Who are you calling dirtbag? My boss isn’t a dirtbag!” Chad retorted.
“Dirtbag, dirtbag, dirtbag! I said that he’s a dirtbag, what are you going to do about it?”
Chad glanced at the master bedroom and lowered his voice. “Come downstairs with me right now!”
With that, the two of them headed down.
Jun raised his hand to look at his watch. “We should go home, too.”
Still frustrated, Tammy said, “Go home? Have you cleaned up the yard?”,
“Oh, let’s go clean up, then!”
“You go do it! I’ll just monitor you!”
“Alright, I will clean up, and you can watch me.” Jun sighed and said, “Don’t be mad, babe. You can fight with Elyette all you want when I’m not around, but since I’m here, can’t you at least leave him be for my sake?”
“I don’t like him!” Tammy went downstairs, “I can’t help it!”
“Averie seems calm enough,” Jun teased. “I guess you are worrying over nothing.”
“Who’s worrying over nothing?” “It’s just an observation, alright? Stop worrying. If Elyette was truly torturing her, do you really think she wouldn’t call for help?”
The group went back downstairs and started to clean the yard.
Suddenly, Mike looked in the direction of the master bedroom on the second floor and said,” Crap! Why aren’t lights on? Did they go to sleep?”
“I guess my boss isn’t going home tonight. I will dismiss the bodyguards,” said Chad.
“Who gave him permission to stay the night?”
Chad lifted an eyebrow. “Averie did!”
Inside the master bedroom on the second floor, Elyette released Averie once he was done. She did not want to look at him, so she turned off the lights.
When she went to turn off the lights, he could see the tears rolling down her face. Though he was physically satisfied, he felt discontent.
He felt worse when she remained quiet.
The room was dark with only the faint light coming in from the street lights down below. He started at her back and furrowed his brows. Instinctively, he wanted to be closer to her, so he stretched out his arm and tried to pull her to him.
She shoved him away with all the power she could muster. The moment she felt the warmth of his body, she shouted, “Let me go!”
“No!” He tightened his arms around her and indulged himself in her scent. He rested his chin on her shoulder. “I’m not leaving tonight.”
Averie felt as though she had been tied up, and she could not move an inch.
Elyette had not been gentle, but he was not as rough as the last time.
“When has he ever asked for my opinion before showing up or leaving? What I think doesn’t matter to him, so he doesn’t even need to say anything! He would just do what he wants anyway!” she thought.
The next day, Averie woke up at seven in the morning as she usually did on weekdays.
When she woke up, the man beside her stared at her through bleary sleep-filled eyes before he turned over and fell asleep once more.
She got dressed swiftly and stepped out of the room.
Her children had already woken up, and Hayden was combing his sister’s hair.
Averie’s heart ached as she thought back to the way her children had shouted the night before. After calming herself down, she entered their room and said, “My wonderful babies! You didn’ t even need me to wake you up today!”
She went over to hug them.
“Mom! Has that bad guy Elyette left yet? Did he bully you?” Layla grabbed Averie’s arm with her little hands and scanned her from head to toe.
Averie shook her head. “He didn’t bully me. I would definitely retaliate if he bullies me! Don’t worry about me, okay?”
Layla sighed a breath of relief. “I knew that my mommy isn’t easy to bully!”
“Yeah!” Once she had put her daughter at ease, Averie turned to look at Hayden. “Hayden, let me take you guys out for breakfast today, okay?”
Hayden nodded.
“I’m fine, really.” Averie patted him on the head, before heading to the closet to find him a hat. “You like hats, so put this on. Mommy will buy you plenty of cool hats.”
Hayden remained expressionless. His jaw was tense. Averie could sense that he was angry that she had not come out of her room last night when they had been yelling for her.
She felt horribly guilty.
After getting her children to wash up, the three of them left the room and were about to head downstairs.
When they walked past the master bedroom, Hayden looked over at the door. He had a strong feeling that Elyette was still inside his mother’s room.
At nine in the morning, the bodyguards of the Foster family came to deliver clothes to Starry River Villa.
Elyette changed, and his phone rang as he stepped out of the room. He answered the call while walking down the stairs.
On the other end of the line, he heard Chad’s anxious voice.
“Mr. Foster! Our server has been hacked! That hacker left a message.”
Elyette stopped and uttered calmly, “Go on.”
“The hacker says he is your dad and told you to learn your place, or he will hack your system every day.”
Elyette sneered and thought to himself, “Hayden Tate wants to be my dad? How hilarious. But, that kid has guts.”
Elyette guessed that him staying over had frustrated Hayden greatly. He must not have been able to get any sleep, and that was why he had attacked Elyette’s company.
Hayden had the right to be angry, but when Elyette pictured how Hayden had lost sleep over anger, he could not help but smirk.
“Mr. Foster, should we call the police?” Chad asked.
Elyette continued his way downstairs as he drawled, “What’s going on in the network security department?”
“They trying to get the system up and running as soon as they can.”
“How long until it’s fixed?”
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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