Mike and Hayden stood by the stairs and watched the entire fight.
It was not actually a fight.
Elyette did not argue with Averie.
He had not made one wrong move ever since he found out she was pregnant.
What Averie was doing now was equivalent to a “counter-abuse”.
However, in the process of hurting Elyette, she was also hurting herself.
Hayden walked over to his mother’s side and hugged her.
“I’m fine, Hayden,” Averie said as she composed herself and hugged her son back. “Tell me when you go to a competition next time, okay? I’ll go and support you.”
Hayden nodded his head.
As the black Rolls-Roice drove out of the Starry River Villa, Elyette did not make his way home.
His mind was in turmoil.
Hayden and Averie’s voices continued to ring in his head, until the two voices were finally interwoven together and gave him a splitting headache.
Without realizing it, he drove the car to the hospital where Averie got an abortion all those years ago.
He saw in the hospital director’s office, then lit up a cigarette and asked, “Can you look up abortion records from five years ago?”
The director quickly nodded and said, “Of course. All I need is the patient’s name. I’ll get my staff to bring out their file right away!”
The cigarette trembled slightly between Elyette’s fingers, and ash fell onto his slender fingers.
His face was shrouded in a fog of smoke, making him look almost dream-like. He parted his thin lips and said Averie’s name.
The next day, the doorbell at the Starry River Villa suddenly rang at seven in the morning.
Averie walked out of her bedroom in her pajamas and made her way toward the front door.
When she saw Tammy through the front door’s camera, she opened the door.
After Tammy married Jun, she went abroad for her honeymoon.
She had told Averie before that she would spend a month-long holiday.
Why was she back only after two weeks?
“How are you feeling, Averie?” Tammy asked as she entered the house with bags of souvenirs.
“I’m fine. I already started going back to work,” Averie said. “Why are you back so soon?”
Tammy pulled a long face and said, “I didn’t have fun at all! We were supposed to spend our honeymoon relaxing, but Jun gets over twenty calls from work every day. Honestly, I feel like getting a divorce.”
Averie poured her a drink, then said, “Don’t be reckless. He just took over his family’s business. Give him some time.”
“Hmph, it’s not like I’m not giving him time. He’s just not very capable, so he’s still struggling until now.” Tammy picked up the glass of water and took a sip, then said, “I sometimes envy people like you who are so good at your jobs…”
“I’m always working overtime,” Averie said as she sat down next to Tammy. “I sometimes even have to bring unfinished work home. It was normal for Mike and I to stay up until three in the morning back when we were starting up the company.”
Her comforting words made Tammy feel a little better.
“Thanks, Averie. Jun said I’m being too unreasonable. Maybe I really am a little bit like that!”
“Did he actually say that?” Averie said in disbelief. “He said I idle and sit around all day, but still interrupt his work. He even said that you’re working so hard at your job despite raising two kids. He told me to learn a thing or two from you, even if just a little bit,” Tammy said as her eyes teared up.
Averie took a deep breath.
Jun went too far with his words.
“It’s not all his fault… I’m the one who chastised him first. I mentioned how Elyette Foster seemed to have enough free time to go out without having to answer calls from work…” Tammy said with puffed cheeks. “Maybe I should find something to do and distract myself.”
“Tammy, you might think Elyette has it easy, but he works really hard. You just can’t see it,” Averie said. “He has a huge study at home that he uses at his home office. He can spend all day there when he’s busy.”
“Does it really get that bad?”
Averie nodded and said, “Nobody’s success comes easily. Even as an heir taking over a family business, one would still need to figure out how to maintain the family’s fortune, right?”
“I guess so… Are the kids still sleeping? Don’t they need to go to school today?” Tammy said, then stood up and walked upstairs.
Averie’s phone rang, and she saw an unknown number calling.
She hesitated for a moment, then answered the phone.
Elyette waited in the hospital director’s office the entire night under the director’s company.
The director had asked Elyette to go home and rest, and said that he would call him right away once they found Averie’s records.
However, Elyette insisted on waiting at the hospital until he got the results.
The director had no choice but to ask his staff to search for the file through the night.
At the crack of dawn, Elyette went to the records room himself.
It was a large room with countless files.
The records were arranged by year and by each medical department.
Logically, it should not be this difficult to find a simple record.
More than ten employees sifted through the maternity unit’s files from five years ago, but there was no sign of Averie’s records.
They began to confirm a second time upon Elyette’s arrival.
They finished their second search an hour later.
“Mr. Foster, there are no medical records for Miss Averie Tate here,” said one of the staff.
Elyette frowned as suspicion grew inside him.
“Could you have gotten the wrong hospital, Mr. Foster? Maybe Miss Tate didn’t undergo her abortion procedure at our hospital?” said the director. “If she underwent surgery here, we would definitely have her records in storage.”
Before Elyette could speak, his bodyguard interjected, “I was the one who brought her to this hospital. How could it be a mistake?!”
The director froze for a moment, then said, “The possibility of losing a patient’s medical records is practically zero.”
“Then let’s see the doctor who did the surgery back then!” said the bodyguard. “Do you remember the doctor’s name?” asked the hospital director.
“How would I know?! She was wearing a surgical cap and mask. I didn’t even get a good look at her face!”
“How about I ask all of the doctors in the maternity unit and see if any of them remember Miss Tate?”
Elyette left the room.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
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