Averie looked at the message and smiled with resignation, before taking her purse and hurrying towards Caesar Hotel.
At six in the evening, Ben and Chelsea appeared in Caesar Hotel.
Chelsea had a social gathering to attend that night, but had called Ben to help as she wasn’t felt so well. Almost halfway through the gathering, Chelsea’s face was flushed from drinking too much and struggled towards the washroom.
Ben followed her and said, “I will ask the driver to send you back, Chelsea. Leave the rest to me.
Chelsea nodded with a pale face.
As they walked by a private room, they overheard laughter and chatter of a couple from the inside.
“Be gentler! Don’t make me lose my baby! I am still counting on this baby to get my Elyette Foster’s fortune! Once he dies, all his money is going to belong to us! Mm… He might be tall, but he is useless in bed! He is nothing compared to you and he couldn’t even satisfy me!” The woman’s voice sounded exactly like Averie.
Ben froze. His expression darkened as he clenched his fists.
Just as he was about to push through the door to the private room, Chelsea grabbed onto his arm. “Ben! No!”
“Why not?!” Ben gritted out, “not only am I going in, I’m calling Elyette too so that he can see who this woman truly is!”
“See who she truly is, and then what? What about the baby she is carrying? According to my knowledge, Elyette wants to keep the baby. Tell Elyette about this after Averie gives birth.”
Chelsea’s words had convinced Ben to suppress his anger.
‘That’s right! That baby!’ He thought, ‘without the baby, I wouldn’t show Averie mercy! What she said just now was pure venom! Not only can I not stand to hear it, Elyette might just kill her if he heard it34 himself!’
However, in order to ensure that the baby was delivered safely, Ben had to pretend that he didn’t know a thing and keep it a secret from Elyette. If he told Elyette about this, there was a great chance that the baby would not be born into the world.
Chelsea dragged Ben away and left.
After exiting the hotel, Ben could barely contain his anger and took out his phone to call Averie.
…Sorry. The number you have dialed is out of service at the moment. Please try againge later.’
“F*ck!” Ben tightened his grip around the phone and glared viciously at the hotel. “I f*cking thought that I heard wrongly! How could Averie be this kind of woman? How could she?”
He even suspected he might be hallucinating after drinking too much, otherwise, how could something so ridiculous happen?
“You heard them right, Ben.” Chelsea grabbed onto his arm tightly out of fear that he might run back into the hotel. “I heard it loud and clear, That was Averie’s voice. Averie said that Elyette couldn’t satisfy her in bed, so she-”
“Shut up! Chelsea, it’s bad enough that someone has said something like that, how could you repeat it!” He roared and swung her hand away. “Go back on your own! I need some time!”
Before leaving, Chelsea reminded him, “don’t do anything reckless, Ben. If Elyette’s baby doesn’t survive, he might very well not have another child for the rest of his life.”
Ben scowled. “Chelsea Tierney, I don’t need you to keep reminding me that! I know what I’m doing!”
This was the first time Ben had shouted at Chelsea. After Chelsea left, Ben strode back into the hotel and towards the reception.
“Help me check if there’s a woman under the name Averie Tate checking into this hotel today.”
The receptionist responded hesitantly, “sir, we can’t disclose private information about our customers.”
“This is my business card,” Ben said, “I know your boss!”
He handed his business card to the receptionist and she took one glance, before helping him check right away.
“Mr. Schaffer, Miss. Tate did check into our hotel earlier today.”
Ben’s heart sank at her words, thinking, ‘Averie, you have guts!’
Averie woke up in an unfamiliar room, with no one else around but her.
Suddenly, she noticed Tammy’s phone on the coffee table. She immediately picked up the phone and checked, before confirming that it belonged to Tammy. ‘Why is Tammy’s phone here?’ She thought.
She thought she was dreaming, because she could see the light surrounding his body. She stepped towards him and he turned around abruptly; she saw his brooding eyes and sensed the warmth radiating off his body and it was then that she finally sobered and realized that it was not a dream.
“Why did you get out of bed?” He held her by the arm and asked, “did I wake you?” She shook her head.
“I slept too long last night and feel dizzy whenever I am asleep for too long.”
“Why don’t we go down for a walk,then?”
Elyette had asked the doctor and the doctor told him that there was nothing wrong with the baby. The main issue was that Averie was emotionally unstable, which led to hyperventilation and increased heart rate. Once she calmed herself and rested, Averie would recover; but if she failed to do so, it would affect the child.
Averie glanced outside the window and saw how sunny it was outside, so she nodded and stepped out of the room with Elyette.
“Averie, the trouble your company is facing is no big deal.” As they walked out of the hospital, Elyette hesitated and said, “you can’t get everything you want in life, whether it’s in daily life or work One can only grow when there’s adversity.”
She gazed up at him. “Are you trying to comfort me?”
“You need to strengthen your mental tolerance.” Seeing that Averie was energetic enough, he cut to the chase and said, “So what if someone took your core technology and earned the money that belongs to you? It’s just a financial loss. Health should always be your top priority for as long as you are alive.”
Averie nodded. “So, you drink and smoke when you are ill because you know that health is the top priority in life. If only you had no clue of how important health is, you would have probably just drowned yourself in a whiskey barrel!”
“…” Elyette realized that he had worried too much and Averie didn’t need comforting after all.
“Haha!” Seeing that he was rendered speechless, she couldn’t help but laugh.
“Look at how red your eyes are. Did you even sleep? If you need to get an electrocardiogram, maybe I can give my room to you.”
“I was worried that you might be upset, so I couldn’t sleep,” he explained, “but judging from the way you are right now, I guess you are stronger than I thought you were.”
“I wasn’t admitted to hospital last night because I was in despair. Shaun was sobbing so much when he called me that I felt like the company was going to crumble into nothing. Losing the company isn’t that big a deal to me, personally; but when I thought of the possibility of those employees that I hired going unemployed… What if they can’t find a new job afterward?”
She was losing sleep over this. Elyette studied the concern in her eyes.
“It won’t get that bad. Technology industries depend mostly on core technologies, but even if yours is stolen, you can upgrade on the foundation of what you had.”
She nodded and asked, “how did you catch the traitors?”
“Torture.”
“Oh.” She guessed so.
“Do you think that I’m cruel?”
Elyette wanted to explain to her that one simply had to be crueler than the people that harmed them, or the others would only bully them.
If there was no severe punishment in accordance with what had happened to Tate Industries, there would always be employees who would dare to betray the company for profits or out of fear; what happened the night before was a warning to all employees that worked there.
“You are cruel,” she said and his heart sank at the words.
“Not only are you cruel to others, but yourself as well. Your body can’t take it any longer if you won’t sleep.” Elyette froze.
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