Mike was sitting next to Hayden and she wanted to sit with Hayden.
Mike wasn’t sure how to reject Shea, and neither did she gave him the chance to do so. Shea walked directly towards Mike and Mike was left with no option but to give her hisza seat.
After that, it didn’t matter if Mike changed his seat with Averie, because she would still be sitting next to Elyette either way.
Mike summoned up the courage and asked Elyette, “let’s exchange seats, what do you say?”
“No.”
Mike stared daggers at him.
Time flew and soon, it was twelve at noon and the wedding ceremony started.
Elyette wasn’t interested and therefore did not keep his eyes on the stage; Averie, on the other hand, was taking pictures at the stage throughout the ceremony.
Shortly after the ceremony ended, it was time for the bouquet toss.
Tammy took one glance at Averie’s direction, before turning around to toss the bouquet towards Averie with all her.might.
Following a “Whew!”, Elyette caught the bouquet and everyone erupted into excited screams.
“???” Averie was stunned.
Elyette did not pass Averie the bouquet after catching it, as he didn’t want Averie to marry someone else to begin with, so he handed it to Mike.
“Thank you!” Mike said.
The lights dimmed as soon as the ceremony ended, and a familiar melody started to echoed within the hall.
The crowd erupted into screams simultaneously.
“Eric! Eric!”
Eric’s alluring voice emerged, leaving everyone in exclamation.
Elyette stared at Averie and noticed that she was quietly eating instead of looking at the stage like everyone else.
She was eating mainly the cold dishes and vegetables, and stayed away from meat.
He picked up his fork and took a piece of pork rib, before placing it onto her plate, as she used to love pork ribs.
She gaped at him and said, “I don’t want it. Take it away.”
If Elyette didn’t take it away, she would likely be so nauseated that she ended up spitting out the vegetable she had eaten; however, he seemed to be determined and commanded, “eat!”
Averie’s head started to hurt.
Just then, her caring daughter Layla reached out to pull Averie’s plate towards her and devoured the piece of pork rib swiftly.
“Mom, change seats with me! I’m not afraid of this bad guy!”
“It’s okay, baby. I’m not afraid of him either.” Averie had lost her appetite and set her fork down.
After a while, Eric’s performance was over and he stepped down from the stage.
Mike immediately went to talk to him. “Change seats with Averie, and then I’ll exchange mine with yours.”
With that, Averie was separated from Elyette with Eric sitting in between them.
Sensing the tension around the table, Eric looked at Elyette and said, “hello, Mr. Foster.”
Elyette’s expression darkened as his eagle-like eyes locked onto Averie’s face. “Averie, are you pregnant?!” He gritted out.
Elyette had described Averie’s symptoms to his family doctor through messages earlier, and the doctor had suggested that Averie had to be either ill, or pregnant.
Elyette quickly denied the former, as Averie was a doctor herself; if she truly was terminally ill, she would not attend Tammy’s wedding, not to mention the bachelorette party the night before.
But what could cause a person to lose so much weight within such a short period of time if one wasn’t terminally ill?
Apart from that, Averie clearly could eat; she simply avoided meat and ate only fruits and vegetables. Was that not exactly the symptoms of pregnancy?
Everyone at the table was stunned at Elyette’s words.
Mike was slightly annoyed and taken by surprise that Elyette managed to realize it so soon, so he said, “Averie’s not pregnant.”
Averie was on pins and needles. She did not look at Elyette , but could still sense his sharp eyes on her face. She could have lied like Mike did, but she couldn’t, simply because it was too easy to check if she was pregnant.
She couldn’t explain why she gagged or why she refused the pork rib he placed on her plate.
Elyette was a skeptical person and she knew that she wouldn’t be able to fool him, so she picked up her purse and stood up.
Everyone turned to look at her, wondering what she was going toza do.
Elyette stood up as well when Averie did, before taking long strides towards her and grabbing her wrist to drag her out of the event hall.
Tammy, who was toasting, saw the two leaving and hurried over to ask, “why did they leave? What happened?”
Mike looked up at Tammy. “Tammy, do you already know that Averie is pregnant?”
Tammy’s eyes darted around guiltily.
“Averie is pregnant?!” Jun exclaimed in shock, “that’s so dramatic! Do you all know about that? Does Elyette know?”
Mike lifted an eyebrow. “What do you think?”
Jun rubbed his hands together. “Hahaha! That’s great, isn’t it? Why do you all seem so gloomy?”
No one was happy, perhaps not even Elyette, considering how terrifying his expression was when he left with Averie.
Jun suddenly came to realization and exclaimed, “could it be that Averie’s baby isn’t Elyette’s?!”
Tammy couldn’t bring herself to listen to the conversation any longer and dragged Jun away.
Elyette dragged Averie out of the event hall and into the elevator by the wrist. The elevator door shut slowly and the tension in the air was suffocating.
Averie never thought that Elyette would find out about her pregnancy at such a time under such circumstances.
She observed him quietly through the metal wall of the elevator.
His brows furrowed as he pursed his lips in silence. In his mind, countless thoughts arose and he was caught in emotions.
It wasn’t that he had not thought of the possibility of Averie getting pregnant with his child, considering how many times they had been intimate without protection; but the discovery had taken him by surprise. Apart from that, he was also angry about the fact that Averie kept the pregnancy from him.
‘Why didn’t she tell me? Could it be that… she is pregnant with someone else’s child?’ He thought.
Elyette tensed and decided to take Averie to the hospital right away.
In the quiet corridor of the hospital, the door to the ultrasound room was pushed open. Elyette stepped out with the ultrasound image in one hand and grabbed onto Averie’s wrist with another.
He exploded the moment they entered the elevator and stared coldly at her. “Averie Tate, whose child are you pregnant with?!” According to the ultrasound, she had already been two months along.
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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