“I’ll go pick you up right now! Don’t cry, it hurts for me to see you like that!” Jun said before hurrying towards his car.
He desperately wanted to call Elyette to ask what had happened, but he didn’t dare to hang up on Tammy. It was the first time he had ever seen her breaking down to such an extent throughout the time he had known her.
Half an hour later, he found Tammy outside the hotel.
“Jun!” Tammy threw herself into his arms and her voice had become hoarse from crying. “Cut all ties with him! I don’t ever want to see him again!”
Jun wrapped one arm around her and took out tissue paper with another hand to wipe away her tears. “Whatever you say, Wifey. Don’t cry, or your eyes will hurt.”
Tammy snuffled and hummed in response.
“Aren’t you supposed to be at home learning to bake today? Why are you here all of a sudden? ” June asked gently.
“I went out early…cause’ Averie contacted me…” Tammy had stopped crying at this point, but couldn’t quite breath normally just yet so she had to pause in between words. “Averie went to the hospital and there’s something wrong with the baby… I was with her in the hospital…then I sent her home… I just thought that Averie shouldn’t have to suffer alone so I came looking for Elyette to get that bast*rd to keep Averie company…”
Tammy couldn’t help but start crying again at the memories of what happened in the hotel.
“Don’t cry, Tammy! I know you have suffered a lot. Let’s just go home, first!” Jun’s heart was heavy, but he couldn’t let it show. “I will cook you something when we get home.”
“I don’t want to eat… I feel so depressed… He hit me…and told me to scram…” Tammy said while covering her face with both her hands, “I have never been so humiliated in my entire life!”
Jun felt horrible to hear what had happened.
Tammy was exhausted from crying and so she went back to her room to sleep upon arriving home.
Jun unlocked his phone and saw a message from Elyette.
‘Jun, call me when you are free.’
Jun immediately exited the room and called Elyette.
The call was answered right away.
“Elyette, did Tammy cross you?” Jun asked gloomily, “she has never gone through hardship before and she can be a bit overbearing. If she has offended you in any way, I will apologize to you on her behalf.”
“She hit Chelsea and said some nasty things to me. I couldn’t control myself and hit her.” “I guessed it. She has to have done something absolutely out of line, otherwise you wouldn’t have hit her.”
Elyette remained silent for a while before asking, “did she tell Averie about this?”
“No. She probably won’t tell Averie for now.”
“Why not?” Elyette was curious as to why Tammy had come looking for him.
Jun told him the truth hesitantly, “Tammy went looking for you to tell you that there’s probably something wrong with Averie’s baby. She was in the hospital with Averie earlier today.”
Elyette swallowed hard and the light in his eyes faded.
“Maybe that affected Tammy in some way, too, so that’s why she was so desperate to find you, ” Jun explained on behalf of Tammy, “Tammy isn’t a bad person.”
“I know,” Elyette responded with a hoarse voice, before hanging up.
“There’s something wrong with our baby, he said…’ Elyette thought to himself, ‘so there’s something wrong with the baby, after all, but Averie hasn’t informed me about it. Does she plan on not telling me a thing if Tammy hadn’t come toof me?’
Feeling as though he was being stabbed in the heart, Elyette dragged his feet towards the exit of the event hall.
“Elyette, dinner is about to start. Where are you going?” Chelsea strode towards him and grabbed him by the arm.
He flung her hand away and barked, “leave me alone!”
With that, he stormed off.
Chelsea watched his lonesome figure disappeared into the distance and her heart ached. She didn’t have to guess to know that he was going to find Averie. Tammy must have come looking for him for something concerning Averie.
Back in the Starry River Villa, Shea called Hayden in the evening. She told him that she was learning to drive and promised to take both Hayden and Layla out to play once she could drive.
“That’s so impressive, Shea! You can drive now!” Mike exclaimed.
“Wesley said that I can learn anything that I feel like doing.”
“Wesley is right! There are so many possibilities for you! Once you learn how to drive, tell your brother to buy you a luxury car!” Mike teased.
“We already have a lot of cars at home. I’ll just take one of them!”
“Drive your brother’s black Rolls-Roice!”
“I don’t like black. I like red cars.”
Just then, a black Rolls-Roice stopped outside Averie’s mansion. Elyette pushed the car door open and got out of the car, before walking up to the gate to ring the doorbell.
Coincidentally, Averie had just finished dinner.
She strolled out of the dining room and gazed out to the entrance to find Elyette standing quietly in the sunset, dressed in white shirt and black trousers.
His soul-piercing eyes locked onto her the moment she appeared, and her heart beat sped up.
‘Why is he here? Did…he find out?’ She thought.
Seeing that she remained frozen by the door, he rang the doorbell again.
Averie lost her composure at the urging sound of the doorbell and took a deep breath, before walking towards him. She opened the door and stepped outside out of concern that he would interrupt the children’s mealtime.
“Averie, why didn’t you tell me that something is wrong with the baby?” He grabbed onto her slim wrist, barely capable of containing himself.
“What’s the point?” Averie looked at him and asked, “so that you can accompany me to the abortion surgery?”
“I have the right to know!” His eyes turned red as he complained, “you can’t change the fact that I’m the father even if you don’t want to admit it!”
“You know now, don’t you?” She responded casually.
“I do know now, but I didn’t hear it from you! Show me the lab reports!” He demanded.
“There’s no lab report.” Her wrist was beginning to hurt from his grip and she reached down to pull his fingers away. “Let go of me!” “Why isn’t there a lab report?!” He loosened the grip but did not fully let go. He simply moved his hand up her wrist and continued to retrain her.
Unable to lie while being confronted by Elyette, she explained, “I did the test in Bridgedale so they only sent me a message.”
“Show me the message!” He commanded, fully intending to persist until he had seen the message for himself.
Just then, Mike and the children walked out of the dining room and spotted Elyette.
“What is he doing here?” Layla murmured.
“Your mom cried this morning, but I don’t know why…” Mike said.
Hayden scowled. “What’s wrong with Mom?”
Mike shrugged. “I don’t know! She won’t tell me even if I asked, but she seems normal just now when we were eating. Maybe it’s not a big deal!”
As they were talking, Averie opened the door and stepped into the yard with Elyette.
Mike took the children back to the dining room, while Elyette followed Averie into the mansion. She picked her phone from the coffee table and opened the message to show him.
After reading the message, he lowered his gaze at her abdomen and asked, “why did you go to the hospital today?”
“I had an amniocentesis.”
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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