Her head slammed onto the ground, but she wrapped her arms around her belly in reflex.
“Miss Tate! Are you okay?”
Averie’s bodyguard was terrified. Without another thought, he picked her up into his arms and ran outside.
“I’ll take you to the hospital! There’s one nearby!”
At that moment, Averie’s phone began to ring frantically in her bag.
Mike was in his car and waiting impatiently at a red light.
He put on her bluetooth earphones and called Averie, but nobody was answering.
He tried calling the bodyguard, but there was no answer either.
Mike was an anxious wreck.
He called Chad and got an answer right away.
“Averie is insane! She was just throwing her guts out this morning, but went and looked for Wanda Tate the second I left for work!” Mike said through gritted teeth. “I can’t reach her or her bodyguard right now! Traffic won’t f*cking move!”
“Do you know where she is?” Chad said calmly. “I’ll go to her.”
“I’ll send you the location!”
Mike hung up the phone, then sent the hotel’s location to Chad.
Half an hour later, Elyette received a call from Chad.
Chad did not dare mention that Averie was at the hospital after getting pushed to the ground.
He simply told Elyette that Averie was at the hospital.
“You don’t need to com sir. Mike and I will be here to watch her,” said Chad.
Elyette shut his laptop, then walked out his office. With a deep frown, he snapped coldly, “What’s the use of watching her?! What happened?!”
Realizing that he could no longer hide the truth from Elyette, Chad said, “Averie went to see Wanda Tate today and ended up falling down after a bodyguard pushed her.”
That morning, Chad had informed Elyette that Wanda’s assistant was the one behind the viral news a few days ago.
Elyette had planned to make some time to see Wanda over this matter.
He did not expect Averie to be one step ahead of him.
Chad heard Elyette’s heavy breathing on the other side of the line and instantly turned anxious.
“It was an accident, sir. You can’t blame Averie… She doesn’t want anything to happen to the child, either… She’s really down right now. Please don’t get mad at her when you get here…”
Elyette hung up the phone.
Ever since Chad got together with Mike, his thoughts turned severely biased.
Elyette cared about the child, but that did not mean that he did not care for Averie’s wellbeing.
If it ever came down to having to choose Averie or the child, he would always choose Averie.
Over at Wonder Technologies , Zoe rushed over the moment she heard about the altercation between Wanda and Averie.
“Was this your so-called plan, Wanda?” Zoe snapped as the anger that she had suppressed for the past two days finally erupted. “Did you not have any other ideas apart from revealing her children?!”
Wanda glanced at Zoe, then said, “Do you know the effect that a business owner has on their business? Exposing her children was only a part of it. What matters is ruining her reputation!”
“Is having children before marriage considered a scandal? What century do you think we’re living in right now?!” Zoe said with a puzzled look on her face.
“You don’t get it. Most of the customers that buy our products are over forty years old…”
“I don’t want to listen to your analysis! Did you know Averie Tate’s children are Elyette Foster’s?!” Zoe snapped angrily. “If Elyette finds out about this, don’t you think he will take Averie’s side?”
Wanda’s face was composed as she said, “I guessed it. The boy looks a lot like Elyette. When Elyette will fight for custody of the children when he finds out they’re his?! There must be a reason why Averie is so terrified of Elyette finding out about it!”
Wanda’s answer made Zoe lift her hands and massage her temples.
She hoped that she was overreacting.
“Averie’s right-hand-man, Mike, is a computer genius,” Wanda said with a seething expression. “He ruined a perfect plan. He’s got something on me now, instead. I can hide my connection to the entire thing, but we can’t use the same move again.”
The moment Wanda finished speaking, her phone rang.
She answered the phone, and was welcome by the pleading cries of her bodyguard, “Madam Tate! Help! Save me!”
The line suddenly went dead.
Wanda did not have time to ask what was going on.
“What is it?” Zoe asked.
When she saw the pale expression on Wanda’s face, she felt her heart jump to her throat.
With furrowed brows, Wanda walked towards the door and said, “It was my bodyguard… I think he’s in trouble!”
As the two women exited the office, the elevator doors steps away opened up slowly.
A man covered in blood slowly crawled out of the elevator.
Zoe let out a horrified shriek!
The color completely drained from Wanda’s face!
It was her bodyguard!
How did he get beaten up like this?!
“It was Averie Tate! I must have been her!” Wanda hissed through gritted teeth.
At that moment, her phone rang once again.
Cold sweat had formed on her back as she pulled out her phone and stared a the unknown number on the screen.
With trembling fingers, she answered the phone.
“Hey, Madam Tate. Ask your assistant to watch herself when she leaves the house!” threatened the unknown man on the other end of the line.
Wanda instantly confirmed that Averie was behind something this cruel.
“I’m calling the police! You’re the one who should watch out!”
“Sure! Go ahead and call the police as long as you’re sure you can handle the consequences of being Mr. Foster’s enemy,” said the voice on the phone as he let out a sinister chuckle.
Wanda’s face turned from pale to bright red! Mr. Foster?
It was Elyette Foster?!
At the hospital, Mike was keeping Averie company in the hospital room.
Chad was standing outside the room waiting for Elyette.
When Elyette arrived, Chad quickly tried to settle down his emotions and said, “Sir, the doctor said that Averie needs to rest right now. She needs to stay in bed for at least a week. She’s not supposed to go through any stressful emotions, So…”
“Are you holding me back?” Elyette snapped as he glared at him with cold eyes.
Chad instantly surrendered and opened the door to the hospital room for him.
Once Elyette entered the room, Chad shot Mike a look to get him to leave.
Mike ignored him, then puffed up his chest and said to Elyette, “The baby’s gone.”
A strange emotion flashed across Elyette’s eyes.
“Leave us. I want to talk to Averie,” he said hoarsely.
Averie was in a daze, but turned towards him after hearing his words.
Chad stormed in and dragged Mike out of the room.
Only Elyette and Averie were left in the room.
Elyette sat down by the bed, held Averie’s hand that was set up with an IV drip, then said gently, “Averie, it’s fine if the baby’s gone. Don’t be too upset.”
His comforting words left Averie speechless.
She watched his dazzling, handsome face and felt as if she was in a magnificent dream.
How could he be so composed about her losing the baby?
“You need to take care of yourself and get your health back,” Elyette said.
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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