Averie sat up and reached out to feel around the space next to him.
Elyette pulled her into his arms and said, “I’ll give you everything you want, Averie. What else do you want? Tell me…”
“I don’t want anything else.” Averie felt the heat from his body. She struggled to escape his clutches, but Elyette hugged her tightly and refused to let go.
“I want to hug you to sleep.” He gently lay her down on the bed, then croaked, “Averie, as long as you and the baby are healthy, I won’t ask for anything else.”
“Is that so?” Averie’s body heated up as her heart began to race. “Did you become more thick skinned after you turned the lights off?”
Elyette turned the lights back on.
Averie gazed in stunned silence at his handsome face. There was no hint of jest in his deep, black eyes.
“You and the baby need to be healthy,” Elyette said, repeating his earlier words.
Averie’s cheeks flushed. She lowered her gaze and said, “Got it. Turn the lights off and go to sleep.”
Elyette shut the lights, and his long arms pulled her back into his embrace.
When Averie woke up the next morning, Elyette sat up along with her.
“It’s only seven thirty in the morning,” she said. “Get some more sleep.”
“I’m not tired.” Elyette reached out to pick up his phone from the nightstand, then called his bodyguard.
He had no clothes to wear, so he had to get the bodyguard to bring them to him.
Someone knocked on the bedroom door soon after the call ended.
Averie walked over to open the door, and saw the bodyguard standing right on the other side holding clothes and toiletries.
“Did you already bring these last night?” she asked.
“Yes, ma’am. I went back to the mansion to get them when I saw that Mr. Foster was staying the night.”
Averie was moved to speechlessness by his professionalism.
After breakfast, Elyette followed Averie out.
She wanted to buy a maternity kit and baby products in preparation for the baby’s arrival.
Elyette insisted on going with her after hearing about it.
Averie had made a list on her phone of the things she needed to buy.
At this moment, her phone was in Elyette’s hands, and he was looking at it with an unusually serious expression on his face.
“Did you make this list overnight after getting custody of the baby?” He saw that the list was made at two in the morning.
Embarrassed, Averie took her phone back and said, “I couldn’t really sleep last night. I remembered that I hadn’t prepared these things yet, so I just simply made a list.”
“Is it because you’re too excited?” As Elyette exposed her, an idea popped into his head. “When the baby’s born, I’m moving into your house and living with you.”
Averie’s brows shot up in surprise as if she did not understand a word he was saying.
“The baby isn’t yours alone. I have the right to take care of him, too.” Elyette’s Adam’s apple bobbed in his throat. He looked resigned as he said, “Since you won’t let me take him away, I’ll just have to move in and raise him with you.”
Averie was distressed.
She did not want this, but she did not want to let him raise the baby by himself even more.
“If you insist, then let’s give it a try!”
“Okay.”
Once they reached an agreement, they began shopping.
Photos of Averie and Elyette shopping were quickly sent to Chelsea’s phone. As she stared at their loving photos, her face gradually turned ominous.
Chelsea felt like something rammed into her heart and was about to break it into pieces!
Although Averie was proven innocent, how could they reconcile just in one night?
Was Elyette the one who went to see Averie himself?
Was it because he cared about the baby, or was it because he cared about her?
Chelsea was too afraid to guess.
She felt ridiculed and hurt. She felt like she spent all these years living like an idiot.
She no longer held any hope of being with Elyette, but she did not want to see any other woman have him either.
She found Wanda’s number and dialed it.
“Did you find the people you were supposed to help me find?”
“Do you want to act now?” Wanda asked. “Do you have age plan?”
“Just find the people I need. You don’t have to care about anything else,” Chelsea responded.” I can’t take this for another second!”
“Okay, let me make some calls. I’ll get back to you later,” Wanda said, then warned, “I’m only responsible for getting the right people for you. I won’t get involved in anything else. I won’t confess if anything goes wrong on your side.”
“Understood.”
After she hung up the phone, Chelsea got up from her seat and prepared to leave the office.
At that moment, Ben opened the door and walked in.
Chelsea felt slightly guilty when she saw him, but it did not show on her face.
“Let’s talk, Chelsea.” Ben closed the door behind him, then went straight to the point and said, “The woman that impersonated Averie Tate was your cousin, Nora, right?”
“How’s that possible?” Chelsea denied. “Nora’s not that kind of girl.”
“Are you still going to treat us all like a bunch of fools at this point, Chelsea?” Ben clenched his fists. “When you made me go to that meeting with you that day, I just happened to hear the impersonated voice… It was too much of a coincidence! Do you think Elyette won’t suspect you?”
“So what if he does? Does he have evidence that Nora was behind it? Even if he does, it would prove that Nora did
What does that have to do with me?” Chelsea shoved Ben aside, then said, “Investigate Nora if you suspect her!
She’s just my cousin. You can’t drag me into it if she messes up, right?”
Then, she strode toward the door.
Ben grabbed onto her arm, then roared, “Chelsea! Stop repeating the same mistakes! If Elyette gets something on you again, you won’t be able to come back to Sterling Group. If you don’t think that’s a big deal, then you might as well just leave now! At least you would still have some dignity left!”
“Ben, you know what kind of person I am. Why would you say something so hurtful?” Chelsea shook her head. “We don’t know who’s going to get the last laugh just yet!”
Then, she stormed out of the room in her stilettos.
Ben watched her slender back and let out an exhausted sigh.
She was a ruthless snake, but it was the same ruthlessness that Ben admired so much about her.
When Chelsea walked out of the office, her phone rang.
She thought it was Wanda calling, so she stopped in her tracks. She pulled out her phone and realized it was a phone call from someone unexpected.
She hesitated for a few seconds, then answered the call.
At the mall, Elyette and Averie had shopped the entire morning. At this moment, the two were about to have lunch at a nearby restaurant.
The maternity kit and things for the newborn were already bought.
After they settled those things, Elyette bought a bunch of other stuff for Averie.
There were clothes, shoes, bags, jewelry…
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