It was seven thirty in the morning when Averie woke up. She walked to the window and pulled back the curtains to let in some fresh air. What she saw was a black luxurious car parked outside her gates.
She thought she was hallucinating. She rubbed her eyes and looked out once again.
It was Elyette’s car.
She saw his familiar standing by the trunk. He looked to be instructing his bodyguards to remove some bags from the trunk.
Averie quickly walked over to her bed and picked up her phone to look at the time.
“What the hell!” she thought.
“Did we not agree on dinner? It’s barely eight in the morning? Why is he here?” she thought.
“Even if he does not know how to cook, he does not need to prepare so early, right?”
Averie quickly rushed into the washroom, splashed some cold water on her face, and rushed downstairs.
When she went downstairs, the children heard the commotion and followed her downstairs
too.
“Elyette, why are you here so early? You bought so many groceries! Did you get up before the sun? Even roosters don’t wake up this early!” Averie walked over to her gate and opened the small door.
It was the weekend, and most people saw it as the best time to sleep in.
They had been sleeping on the same one-and-a-half-meter-long bed for the past three days they were in Zirconia. She did not know if Elyette had slept well, but she had not.
“Go back to sleep. I was just going to get Mike to open the door for me,” said Elyette, not realizing how inconsiderate he was being. “I’m used to being prepared for whatever I’m about to do,” he said patiently.
Averie looked at Elyette and his bodyguard carrying a bunch of things in. She wanted to get angry at him, but at the same time, she could not bare be angry with him.
When the two children inside saw that Elyette had come, they were utterly shocked.
Averie had told them that he was coming over to make dinner. It was definitely too early for dinner! “Is he about to make us all three meals?” they wondered.
Averie was still sleepy, so she headed upstairs and continued to rest.
Hayden was also about to head upstairs, but Layla pulled him back, making him stay with her to “supervise”.
“I don’t want to see him. Get Uncle Mike to stay with you,” Hayden cold-heartedly rejected his sister’s request before heading upstairs.
Layla pouted. She stared at Elyette with her huge beautiful eyes.
Elyette could feel her gaze. He immediately walked over to her.
“Layla, you and your brother are twins, right?” Elyette bent down in front of her. He had not slept the entire night because he had been plagued by this issue.
Although Elyette had not done a paternity test, he knew Hayden’s character and he saw Hayden. There was no denying that Hayden looked and behaved like him. There was no denying that Hayden was his son.
Averie had also said that Layla was her biological daughter. How could she have given birth to both of them in the span of four short years?
The only possibility was that the two children were born at the same time.
When Elyette was thinking about it last night, he had found himself seized with excitement that he had found it hard to sleep… He truly liked Layla.
From the moment he met Averie’s children, he preferred Layla.
It did not matter who Averie had had Layla with, he had never once hated Layla because Layla looked a lot like Averie. Layla also possessed a very interesting character. Although she was a good child, she was not a child given to blinde8 obedience.
She was rather eccentric and quirky. Elyette lacked such characteristics which was part of the reason why he liked her so much.
“What’s a twin?” Layla blinked her curious eyes innocently, fanning her eyelashes. “My Mommy has never told me about this before! What does that mean?”
The hope that Elyette had felt was rapidly fading. Could things be not the way he had thought them to be?
What were the circumstances that lay behind the two children? He wanted to get a DNA test done, however, without Averie’s permission and the children’s consent, he dared not do it. It would be harder to gain their forgiveness than it would be getting their consent for such a test.
“If you’re not going to tell me, I’m going to go ask Mommy!” Layla pouted and was about to head upstairs.
Elyette was afraid that Layla would disturb Averie, so he picked her up in his arms and walked into the kitchen.
“Twins means that you and Hayden grew together while you were in your mommy’s tummy, and it also means that you were born together,” said Elyette as he studied her adorable face.
Her brows, nose, and her tiny mouth were exactly the same as Averie’s. “Averie must have been this adorable when she was young!” he thought.
Time stopped and the air froze.
Elyette pursed his lips. Then, very quickly, he pecked her cheek. Elyette flushed after the act.
At the same time, he realized that he had crossed the line. Layla did not like him, how could he have kissed her?
He immediately placed the stunned Layla down on the floor.
“I’m sorry, Layla. I didn’t mean to do it,”
“You look too much like your mother. I couldn’t help it. I’m sorry.” He failed to tell her all of that in time.
Layla’s cries rang through the entire villa!
“Woo! Woo! Woo! Mommy!” Layla cried while screaming at the top of her lungs, “Mommy! Hayden! The bad man kissed me! Woo! Woo! I don’t want him to kiss me!”
Instantly, everyone rushed over.
Averie and Hayden rushed downstairs. Mike, with his blonde spiky hair, was the first to rush over. He immediately picked Layla up and patted her back. “Babe, who bullied you? Hmm?”
Layla, her vision blurred by her tears, pointed her little finger at Elyette who was in the kitchen.
When Mike saw Elyette, he was stunned. “Why are you here? Is it dark already? Bloody hell! Did I sleep the entire day away?! Impossible!”
Averie took a piece of tissue to wipe Layla’s tears. “Layla, what did you just say? Who kissed you?” Averie did hear her clearly.
“Elyette the evil man! He kissed me here…” Layla pointed at her plump cheeks. She began to calm down.
“My Dirtbag Dad kissed me, does that mean that he likes me?” she wondered. However, she had not decided to forgive him yet!
Elyette walked over to Averie and apologized sincerely, “Averie, I’m sorry. I was just entranced by how adorable Layla is, which was why I could not help myself.”
This was the first time Averie had heard such a self-justified apology.
“I know my daughter is cute, but I just can’t have people kiss her because they find her cute. If everyone who finds her cute kisses her, then how can she be expected to lead a normal life?” Although Averie was reprimanding him, she could not help the conflicted feelings welling up inside her.
Elyette was a person who could control his desires. “Did he kiss Layla because of the parental bond that they shared?” shee8 wondered.
“Layla, I’m sorry,” Elyette apologized to Layla once more. “I’ll let you hit me, okay?”
Elyette stretched out his hand to Layla. Layla immediately grabbed his hand, pulled it toward her, and it bit it!
Averie and Elyette were dumbfounded. She was like a feral cat! Although she was small in stature, she bit him hard. Elyette felt her teeth bite into his flesh.
“Layla, stop biting!” Averie patted Layla on the shoulder. “If you hurt him, who is going to cook dinner for us?”
Layla obeyed Averie and immediately released Elyette.
Elyette quickly retracted his hand and placed it behind his back. When Averie saw Elyette’s sheepish behavior, her heart softened slightly.
She dragged him away from the living area.
“Hayden, did you see it?” said Mike to Hayden after analyzing the situation. “Elyette has tricks up his sleeves! First, he kissed Layla, then he pretended to be hurt in front of your Mommy. Layla isn’t that strong. How could she have hurt him…”
As he said that, he snuck a glance at Layla. He noticed that there were a few drops of blood staining her lips.
“Cough! Cough! Cough! Layla! You didn’t have to use that much strength. If you hurt him,
how is he going to cook dinner for us?” Mike said awkwardly.
Layla blinked and licked her lips. “His hand smelled good. I couldn’t help myself. Woo, woo…”
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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