Shea and Layla walked out of the living room to the villa’s front door.
Elyette glanced at them, then approached in long strides.
“Layla has to go to school now, Shea. I’ll take you home,” he said as he arrived in front of Shea.
Shea nodded, then said softly, “I already apologized to Layla, Big Brother. You should, too.”
Layla’s gaze was lowered, but her lips were protruding in an adorable pout.
Elyette crouched down, then gazed at Layla’s face that was the spitting image of Averie and said gently, “I’m sorry, Layla. Not only was I late last night, I even made you sad. I’d like to explain everything to your8c mother.”
At this point, he asked, “Do you know where your mother went?”
When Elyette asked the bodyguard regarding Averie’s whereabouts earlier, he had kept his lips sealed and refused to reveal it.
As Layla looked closely at Elyette’s face, the nervousness that she felt slowly subsided.
He may be a dirtbag, but he was also very handsome.
“Of course I know where Mommy went,” Layla said confidently as she lifted her chin at him.” I have to go to school now, so I can’t talk to you anymore. I won’t be late like you!”
Her double entendre left Elyette feeling embarrassed and helpless.
Layla clenched her tiny fists and basked in her glory.
In truth, she had no idea where her mother was. Averie was already gone by the time she woke up.
She tempted Elyette on purpose as a little form of punishment.
The bodyguard walked over with Layla’s backpack, then picked her up with one arm.
Elyette stood up, then glanced at Shea and said, “Let’s go home.”
Shea nodded regretfully.
As he drove out of the Starry River neighborhood, Elyette dialed Mike’s number.
Mike answered the call very quickly.
“Where did Averie go, Mike? Don’t tell me she’s back at the office.”
Elyette decided to send Shea home, then go and look for Averie.
He needed to know Averie’s whereabouts as soon as possible.
As long as he could not explain things to her, his heart could not rest.
Mike had just dropped Hayden off at school.
He was standing in the school’s parking lot under the warm morning sun.
“Call her yourself!” he said lazily. “Did she block your number again? Ha… I can’t reveal her location without her permission. I won’t have a place to live if she blames me.”
Elyette frowned at Mike’s spiteful behavior.
“My company recently decided to expand into the international market. I’m thinking of sending Chad abroad to do some recon work. What do you think?”
Mike was speechless.
How absurd!
Elyette Foster was a f*cking b*st*rd!
He was using Chad to threaten him!
“You won’t be able to see Averie even if you threaten me!” Mike took a deep breath, then said coldly, “She may not have gone to the office, but she’s working! She went on a business trip. Her flight took off this morning.”
“Which city did she go to?” Elyette asked with furrowed brows.
At three months pregnant, it was not suitable at all for Averie to do any strenuous work
Did she decide to go on a business trip this morning because of what happened last night?
She was not an unreasonable person. She would not go on a business trip during this period if she had any rationality left.
“She went to Zirconia,” Mike said as he gave in.
It was not because Elyette threatened to relocate Chad abroad.
It was because Mike knew, even if he gave Elyette the address, it was a place that he could not
get to.
“Zirconia City?” Elyette’s heart tightened in his chest as he felt breathless. “Why did she go somewhere that far away? Even if there’s a customer there, she doesn’t need to go there personally! What were you thinking?! How could you let her go there alone?!”
Mike was not upset at all about being scolded.
“I told her the same thing this morning. I said I’d go with her and look after her, but she wanted me to stay home and watch the kids!” Mike gritted his teeth, then snapped, “She’s always telling me to watch the kids! It’s as if my dignity as a man is nonexistent!”
After a moment’s consideration, Elyette said, “Send me her itinerary and the location of the hotel she’s staying in. I’ll get Chad to go and help you out.”
Mike tried to hold back his glee as he said, “It’s a deal!”
“Alright,” Elyette responded.
“Our client this time is the Border Security Force. As for accommodation, Averie’s staying on the base itself,” Mike said as he broke into a maniacal cackle. “I told you that you can’t get in there. They won’t just let you into their base.”
Elyette gritted his teeth, then hung up the phone.
Zirconia City was at the country’s border. It would take a four-hour flight to get there from here.
He did not know what time Averie’s flight was that morning, but she probably did not arrive in Zirconiad4 yet.
Even if her plane already landed, it would have just done so.
Averie had gone to a unique place that was not typically dangerous, so Elyette was not aszd worried.
He could wait for her to return from her business trip to explain things to her.
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If he hastily showed up in Zirconia and interfered with her work, she might be even more upset withci him.
Once Elyette dropped Shea at home, he made his way to his office.
Not long after he arrived, his secretary walked in and said, “Miss Zoe Sanford is downstairs, Mr. Foster. She said she’s here to apologize to you.”
“Add her to the black list and never let her take one step into the company ever again!” Elyette snapped coldly without hesitation.
“Yes, Sir!”
Zoe’s self esteem took a huge blow after she was kicked out of the Sterling Group building.
Before she met Elyette, she was still considered an outstanding lady of some status.
She could not believe that Elyette would treat her this way.
It was a good thing that the child she was pregnant with before was not his. Otherwise, she would lose her mind if he treated her this way.
Zoe got into her car, pulled out her phone and called Cole Foster.
“Cole, go on vacation abroad with me.”
“What’s wrong? Did my uncle upset you again?” Cole asked.
“Ha! I wish he cared about me enough to do that. He won’t even see me now,” Zoe said with a bitter laugh. “Won’t you come cheer me up?”
“Let me settle some work I have on hand… Didn’t you say you gave up on him before, Zoe? Why did you go looking for him again?”
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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