The two of them could be… Fraternal twins!
What else could explain the photo they took together when they were a year old? What else could explain the fact that they had the same last name?
Averie burst into tears!
She had once broken up with Elyette because of Shea’s existence.
Now that Shea was dead, the truth was finally in front of her!
She buried her face in her hands and allowed herself to vent her painful emotions.
After crying for some time, she gradually began to calm down.
She turned the page on the photo album.
After sifting through a few pages, Averie noticed that Shea was smiling in almost all of the photos before she turned two years old. However, in the photos after that, she rarely smiled and her eyes turned blank. By the time Shea turned four years old, she was no longer in the Foster family portraits.
However, there were individual photos of Shea.
At the time, Elyette was also just a four-year-old child. Even if he was smarter than others his age, he still would not be able to do anything about wanting his sister to be a part of the family portrait
Averie guessed that Elyette’s father was the main reason behind the fact that Shea was left out of the family register. He could not accept having a mentally disabled child.
Otherwise, he would not leave his own daughter out of their family portraits.
Averie continued to look through the photos. When she turned a new page, she saw a photo of Elyette at five years old.
Looking at a five-year-old Elyette felt like she was looking at him now, but something did not feel right.
Her heart tightened in her chest as her hands began to tremble.
Elyette did not look like this when she was looking at the earlier photos, but the five-year-old Elyette was obviously him!
Averie turned back to the earlier pages and tried to find photos of Elyette at four years old, but could not find any!
She clearly remembered seeing individual photos of him before… Where did they go?
She continued to flip the album backwards… There were no individual photos of him at three years old either.
There was only a photo of him at two years old.
Averie pulled out that photo and compared it with the one of him at five years old.
These were… These were clearly not the same child!
Could it be that the absence of photos of him at three and four years old made it look like there was a much larger difference?
Why were there no photos of him between the ages of two and give?
What happened in between?
At that moment, Mrs. Cooper walked in and said, “I’m going to make dinner now, Averie.”
Averie closed the album shut, then strode to the door and asked, “Isn’t Elyette home yet?”
“Not yet. Stay for dinner!” Mrs. Cooper gazed at her eyes, then asked, “Why are your eyes red? Did you think about Shea?”
Averie nodded her head.
“Master Elyette would be upset if something happened to either Shea or Robert,” Mrs. Cooper sighed. “Let’s just hope that Robert can live a peaceful life?
a healthy life from now on. That way, Shea’s sacrifice wouldn’t go to waste.”
It was completely dark outside by six in the evening.
Mrs. Cooper called Elyette to ask when he would be home, but he did not answer his phone.
“He’s not answering, Averie. You should have something to eat first,” said Mrs. Cooper.” Didn’t you say you still had to go to the hospital after this?”
Averie responded, then picked up her knife and fork.
Just as she was about to begin dinner, a car horn came through from outside.
Mrs. Cooper rushed to the front door to take a look, then hurried back to the dining room and said, “Master Elyette’s home, Averie!”
Averie immediately dropped her knife and fork, then walked out of the dining room.
When she arrived at the mansion’s front door, she saw Elyette getting out of the car into the dark night.
His eyes were cold as ice as he gazed at her.
She knew that he would not blame her for what happened to Shea, but she could not help but freeze in that moment.
She was not sure what she was afraid of.
Elyette approached Averie. Just as he was inches away from her, she unconsciously took a step back.
“Did you come to see me?” Elyette asked coldly as he gazed at her face. “What is it?”
Was he actually asking her why she was there?
Did she need a reason to show up?
“I came to check on you,” Averie said after mustering up her courage.
“I’m fine. You can leave.” Elyette cut her off, then averted his gaze from her.
He walked away and went straight into his room upstairs.
Averie felt like she could hear her heart breaking into pieces!
She pursed her lips as bitterness spread through her entire body. If Elyette despised her this much, then he probably also did not want Robert anymore!
The hallways in the hospital were secluded and quiet.
Averie made her way to the intensive care unit in the neonatal unit.
One of the nurses recognized her, then quickly approached her and said, “Robert’s doing very well today, Miss Tate! If everything goes well, then you can just rest at home and wait until he can be discharged.”
Averie nodded her head.
Since Robert was fine, there was no use for her to stick around.
As she left the hospital, her head began to spin.
She knew exactly why she was upset.
She could try to convince herself over and over again to not care about Elyette’s behavior. She could pretend to be cool and raise the children herself with no hiccups. However, why did her heart ache this much?
She knew very well that Hayden and Layla might have always said that they did not want a father, but they wanted one in their hearts.
Averie knew that she needed him, too.
However, there seemed to always be an invisible pair of claws between them.
Every time they wanted to get closer to each other, those claws would reach out and rip them apart!
Were they destined not to be able to be together?
Averie arrived home at nine that night.
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