“I don’t want to break up with him, but I don’t want this unhealthy child to leave a stain on him either.” Averie’s eyes were hot. “I can’t abort this formed child. I can’t do it. I really can’t do it…”
“Don’t think about this now. No matter what you decide, I’ll always stand by your side.” Mike passed her the box of tissues.
A while later, the car was at the hospital.
Mike brought Averie outside Wesley’s ward. Wesley’s mother, Sandra, came out of Wesley’s ward. She looked at Averie coldly. “Averie, I want to talk to you in private.”
Averie followed Sandra to the corridors. They walked over to a place where there was no one and stopped there.
The sunlight outside the window was a little piercing, Sandra looked out for a while before retracting her gaze. “Averie. My son is like this now thanks to you.”
“Aunt Sandra I’m sorry.”
“What use is there being sorry? I only have one son. Do you know how upset I am now that he is in this state?” Sandra said. Tears fell. “How much I liked you in the past is how much I hate you right now. How dare you appear in front of us?”
“I just want to apologize to you and Mr. Brook, as well as Wesley.”
“We don’t accept your apology!” Sandra pointed at the lift. “Leave this place at once. Don’t let me see you again in the future! I feel unlucky just looking at you!”
When Mike entered the ward, he looked at the pretty bouquet of sunflowers on the table. He asked, “Did Shea send this?”
Wesley woke up a few days ago. He was in quite good spirits. Only his leg was broken so he could not get out of bed.
“Hmm. She would send me a bouquet every day. I’m really grateful for her.”
“Wesley, you have such a good outlook. You’re still grateful to others even after such a serious injury,” Mike lamented.
Wesley’s eyes were still bloodshot, but the light in his eyes brightened up quite a bit. “David Grimes is dead. Averie and I are still alive. We won.”
“It’s good that you think of it this way. Averie is doing much worse than you,” Mike said while looking at the door. “I’ll go have a look and see why she is not in yet.”
Mike walked out of Wesley’s ward, yet he only saw Sandra.
“Aunt Sandra, where is Averie?”
Sandra replied coldly, “I don’t know. My son needs to rest. Don’t bring her here again next time.” She went into Wesley’s ward and shut the door.
Mike suddenly realized that even if Wesley did not blame Averie, that did not mean that Wesley’s family would not blame her.
Averie had just come around. Her emotions were still unstable. Adding on the agitation from Sandra, she must be in a lot of pain!
Mike immediately rushed to the lift. Averie did not have her phone or money with her. She was still injured! Where could she have gone to?
Coming out of the inpatient unit, Mike searched around but he did not see Averie anywhere.
He diald Elyette in despair. “Elyette! Come to the hospital quickly! Averie got lost!”
Elyette immediately rushed out of the mansion. “What happened?”
“Wesley’s mother talked to her in private. I am sure that Sandra must have said some harsh words to Averie!” Mike stood in the huge yard of the hospital and looked around. “It’s my fault! I was talking to Wesley in his ward, so she must have left!”
Elyette furrowed his brows tightly. “She shouldn’t have gone far. Keep watch at the entrance right now!”
Averie got out of the lift and aimlessly walked to the outpatient building. There were a lot of seats there. She was tired, so she found an empty seat and sat down.
All around her were patients or their families. A couple was there bringing their sick child to see the doctors.
“I already said I didn’t want the child, yet you insisted! Look at it now. We have to come to the hospital every few days! Do you know I’m busy! This is the last time I’ll come with you to the hospital!” The man sat in the chair and reproached his wife with the child in her hands.
“I don’t want the child to be sick. What use is there blaming me? This is your child too. If you don’t come with me the next time, I won’t come either. Let her just die!”
“Okay, then let her just die! We don’t have to see the doctors today either!” The man said and stormed off!
The woman stood in the same spot and sobbed with the child in her hands. In the end, the woman gave up. She placed her child on the chair and left.
Averie looked at the abandoned female baby. Her nose was sore. She got up from her chair and wanted to pick up the wailing a child.
“Don’t touch my baby!” The heartless mother returned.
Averie saw her take her child away and she was deeply moved.
“Averie!”
Nearby, someone called out her name out loud. She looked toward the source of the sound and saw Elyette running over to her anxiously.
When he was in front of her, he held her arms tightly. “Averie, Wesley’s injuries are not cause by you. Don’t listen to what others say.”
“Hmm.” Averie looked at Elyette’s sleep-deprived face. She lowered her gaze. “Let’s go.”
Elyette picked her up in his arms.
Averie looked at his familiar face up close in a daze. Up till that point, she was sure that she still loved this man deeply. She did not want to see him being tied down by life’s trivial matters. She hoped that he was always the beacon of light shining brightly!
Elyette carried her to the car and patiently buckled her seat belt.
“Elyette, when are you planning to return to Aryadelle?” Averie looked at Elyette’s handsome side profile and asked.
Elyette looked up and met her gaze. “Once you’ve recovered, we’ll return together.”
Averie shook her head. “Why don’t you go back right now! Elyette, my heart has seemed to have become handicapped. Looking at how well you treat me, I should love you even more, but right now, I’m afraid. I really want to run away. I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to drag you down, so I beg of you, go back! Return to where you belong.”
Elyette looked at Averie’s pale face and said painfully, “You’re not afraid, nor are you running away. It’s just that in your heart, the child is far more important than me. You think that I will not treat our child well. You don’t have confidence in me. You think a jerk like me should just end up alone!”
Averie saw Elyette’s shimmery wet eyes. She wanted to say no. It was not how he put it.
However, Elyette suddenly stood up and left in front of her. He slammed the door next to her shut with a loud bam!
Elyette did not go to the driver’s seat. He stood outside the car, took his phone, and made a call.
Averie silently looked at him. They were divided by a car door, yet it seemed like they were divided by an unbridgeable gap in between them.
He said that in her heart, the child was more important than him. How could she compare them together? The child was a weak being, of course, she would protect the child even more.
He said that she did not have confidence in him. It was more like she did not have confidence in herself.
Not long after, Mike ran over. Averie saw the two of them talking outside the car. She did not know what they were talking about. Mike quickly accepted the car keys from Elyette and came to the driver’s seat.
Elyette had his back facing here from beginning to end. Averie saw his back muscle tense. up.
Once Mike got in the car, she retracted her gaze.
“He said that he’s going back tomorrow. Did you ask him to go back?” Mike started the car and asked.
“Hmm.” Averie could not help but look out the window once more.
“He said that he will be staying at the hotel tonight. Did you two argue?” Mike drovega off.
Averie ignored Mike.
She leaned against the car window. She saw Elyette’s figure getting further and further away from her. It was until when she could hardly see him then only, he turned around.
“Why do you two do this to yourselves?” Mike stopped in front of the red light and sighed.” Would you be even happier if you split up with him?”
“My head hurts.” Averie inhaled and closed her eyes. As long as she thought about Elyette, her brain would hurt as if it was going to explode.
“Go back and rest well. Your body has not recovered. I shouldn’t have brought you out,” Mike said, “Also, I talked to Wesley. He never blamed you at all. No matter what his mother said, don’t take it to heart.”
During dinner, Shea lost her appetite. The first was because she had to return to Aryadelle with Elyette the next day. The second was because she knew Elyette and Averie fought again.
Mike took some food for her. “Shea, you can always come here whenever you want.”
Shea asked, “Then, when are you guys going back?”
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