“Are you hungry?” Mike carried Layla into the kitchen.
“Hmm. Will Mommy be mad at me?” Layla was suddenly a little worried.
“She won’t. It’s that dirtbag who kissed you first. You should do whatever you like when you face someone like him,” said Mike. “If your Mommy blames you, I’ll stand up for you!”
Averie took Elyette into a room. There was plenty of medication in the room.
“I’m sorry, Layla doesn’t know her strength.” Averie blamed herself for the bite marks on his palm. It was even starting to bleed. “You don’t have to make dinner today.”
Elyette said distractedly, “I’m fine. I’ll wear gloves while cooking. It doesn’t matter.”
“Why did you kiss Layla?” Averie lowered her gaze. She cleaned his wound with some disinfectant she had.
“Because she looks like you. When I look at her, it feels like I’m looking at you,” Elyette said hoarsely. “Averie, I had a dream last night.”
“Hmm?” Averie looked at him. “I thought you didn’t sleep last night! You don’t look too well.”
“I slept a little,” he answered, telling her a half-truth. “I dreamt that your children were twins.
Averie’s hands trembled, and she poured the entire bottle of disinfectant onto his hand.
Seeing how lost she looked, he said, “I was looking through some photos of when I was a child, and could not help but noticed that Hayden looks a lot like me. If I ever had a son, I’m sure that he would look like Hayden.”
Averie took some cotton balls and wiped away the excess disinfectant. Her voice shook, “Elyette if the child in me is a boy, you’ll know what he looks like when he is born.”
Averie’s tone was ambiguous, but Elyette understood the deeper meaning behind her words.
She was telling him not to get any ideas about Hayden and Layla. It did not matter whether or not they were twins, neither did it matter if Hayden was his son or not. The only child that belonged to him was the one she was carrying.
In the past, Elyette’s bad temper would erupt by now, but his emotions were more stable now than they were before, and it was better than nothing.
Averie finished applying the medication on his wound, then picked up the gauze and roll of bandages she planned on wrapping his hand up with.
“Just stick a simple bandage on it,” Elyette said. He thought that using the gauze would be taking things too far. People might end up thinking he was suffering from a much more severe injury.
Averie ignored his request and immediately began to wrap his hand up with thee8 gauze.
“Keep the wound dry for the next couple of days,” she instructed.
“How would I take a shower, then?’ Elyette asked.
“Is this the first time you’ve gotten hurt?”
Averie raised her brows. She wanted to mock him, but lost the confidence to do so as she remembered that her daughter was responsible for Elyette’s wound.
“If you can’t take a shower with one hand and don’t want any help from others, then just use a water-resistant glove,” she said.
Elyette stared at his solidly bandaged hand, then said casually, “When can we find out if the baby’s a boy or a girl?”
“We’ll know once it’s born, right?” Averie said.
She put the medication and bandages away, then walked to the door and said, “It’s not like we can change anything even if we find out sooner.”
“I hope it’s a girl,” Elyette said as if he was making a wish and sauntered over to her. “Just like Layla.”
“Life has a tendency of giving you the exact opposite of what you wish too hard for,” Averie irked him deliberately. “It could be a boy.”
The faint light in Ellliot’s eyes vanished.
It was obvious that he truly wanted a daughter, and was not too fond of the idea of having a son. It was no wonder he was able to act so violently toward Hayden in the past.
If it were not Hayden, but Layla who had provoked him back then, perhaps the ending would have been different
Chad arrived forty minutes later.
Since Elyette’s hand was hurt, Mike could not count on him to cook and called Chad to come over to help.
Averie thought that Mike had only called Chad over. However, Tammy, Jun, Ben, Wesley and Shea all showed up not long after.
She did not tell anybody that Elyette was cooking at her home that day.
It was because she had no confidence in his culinary skills at all. What if he ended up blowing the kitchen up?
Thus, she decided it was not a matter she wanted to publicize.
However, Mike went ahead and invited all these people over to watch the show.
“Whoa! Why are you making dinner so early, Mr. President?” Tammy said as she approached Elyette with a cheeky grin. She saw his bandaged hand, then gleefully teased, “The stove isn’t even turned on yet, but you’re hurt already? Could this be some kind of mysterious ritual? Did you use your blood to appease the Kitchen Gods?”
Elyette was unfazed by her mockery.
“Don’t come in here and affect my performance.”
“How do you expect to perform with your hand like that? Even if you stay back and help clean up, you’d just get in the way! Ha!” Tammy’s hearty laughter echoed through the entire villa.
Averie could not listen to this for another second and dragged Tammy out of the kitchen.
Elyette insisted on cooking for her and the children. She could not convince him otherwise, and ended up leaving him be.
Chad was around to help anyway, so it should not be too much trouble.
“How could you not tell me about such big news, Averie? If you ever remarry him, am I only going to find out about it once the marriage license is already out?” Tammy said disappointedly.
“He just came over to cook. Don’t make it out to be anything more,” Averie said as she peeled a tangerine and passed it to Tammy.
“Hmph! Don’t think you can settle this with a measly tangerine. You should at least tell me what happened between the both of you in Zirconia. Even the couple in the TV drama I’m watching aren’t progressing as quickly as you two!” Tammy sulked as she ate the tangerine.
Realizing she could not escape Tammy’s interrogation, Averie had no choice but to lightly and briefly describe the events that occurred at Zirconia.
“Why did you sleep in the same room?” Tammy asked.
She was an expert at picking up on key points like that.
“We were in the middle of a storm,” Averie said. “It’s not like I could just kick him out.”
“I see. Did you sleep in bed together? How could you let him in your bed? He didn’t even make an effort, but all it took was a storm for you to let him get his way?!”
Averie froze for a moment, then said, “We didn’t do anything… Well, he didn’t exactly do nothing at all…”
“I knew he would have done something toe8 you…”
Averie had a feeling the conversation was heading toward a strange direction, then quickly interjected and said, “It’s not what you think, Tammy! He just… He washed… My… Feet…”
She did not want to mention this, but Tammy’s seething glare was too intense!
Then, Tammy chuckled delightfully an said, “Way to go, Mr. Foster! Not only can those noble hands of his earn money, they can also wash a woman’s feet! Is this ability to endure humiliation and roll with the punches the secret to his success?! It’s no wonder everything works out for successful people! If a man traveled thousands of miles just to wash my feet, then I would throw down my guard and surrender to him!”
Bursts of laughter suddenly filled the entire house!
Averie’s cheeks were burning as she held onto her glass of water with both hands and thought of Elyette.
She wondered if he would be upset that she let this incident slip.
After all, it was something that others could use to make a joke out of him in the future.
Out in the front yard, Wesley had stepped out for some air. Shea had unexpectedly followed him out of the house.
“Hi, Mr. Wesley,” she said.
Wesley smiled and said, “Just call me Wesley.”
“Wesley, are you a doctor, too?” Shea asked as she gazed at him with eyes filled with admiration.
“I am, but I’m not that skilled. I’m just a normal doctor,” Wesley answered as his cheeks turned pink
Shea flashed a grin and said, “It would be great if you could cure me. I don’t like Dr. Sanford or the doctor she recommended.”
The smile on Wesley’s face froze.
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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