Two minutes later, Jun called.
Averie picked up and heard Jun’s flustered voice coming from the phone. “Averie, are you sure that I didn’t invite you to my wedding? I remember that I informed you about it.” “You didn’t. I heard about your wedding from Tammy.” “Oh, damn it! I forgot to send you the invitation! Averie, my wedding is on the first of April, you have to come!” Jun deadpanned. Averie was slightly upset. “Jun, are you able to let Tammy go?”
Jun remained quiet for a few moments, before saying, “she was the one who divorced me and blocked me mercilessly. Do you think that all the pain she caused me is not enough? You haven’t forgiven Elyette, have you? So why should I forgive her?” “I’m sorry…” Averie said guiltily, “since you’ve now invited me, I will attend your wedding.” “Sure. It’s late now, so I won’t take up any more of your time.” With that, Jun hunged up.
Averie spotted another message from Elyette. ‘Call Tammy along when you attend there wedding.’ She scowled and replied, ‘why?’ “Jun wants her to be there, but he couldn’t reach her. Do me this favor and I will overlook what happened this94 morning.
’ Elyette had taken the initiative to mention what happened earlier that day and proposed a way to resolve it; both of them were well aware that even if he didn’t ask, Tammy would appear at the scene of Jun’s wedding.
“Okay.’ Averie replied. After that, she exited the chat and opened her calendar to check how long it was until the first of April. Once she checked the calendar, she received another message fromd3 Elyette. ‘First of April falls on a weekend, so bring the kids along.’ Averie felt slightly irritated at his request. ‘Layla and Hayden love Tammy, so they might not be willing to attend a wedding between Jun and another woman!’
Elyette read through the long sentence and replied, ‘Jun doesn’t have to marry another woman.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Let’s talk on the phone!’ He wanted to hear her voice. If she was willing to call him, he could tell her that Jun was waiting for Tammy to destroy his wedding. However, Averie replied immediately, ‘I don’t want to talk to you.’
Elyette stared at the screen with a frown.
Realizing that she might be overreacting, she added, ‘I’m going to bed now.’ ‘You are going to bed this early?’
Averie flushed. ‘It’s none of your business.’ ‘Let’s talk on the phone, Averie! If you don’t feel like talking, answer the call and I will do the talking.’
Perhaps people do become more sentimental at night. Just as she was contemplating how she should reply to his message, his call came in. Seeing that she didn’t reply, Elyette figured that there was a fifty percent chance she might pick up and went ahead tod3 call. Averie’s heart throbbed at his call; after struggling with the choice of either answering the call or leaving it, she picked up.
“Averie, Jun isn’t as hateful as you think he is,” Elyette said, hoping to keep her interested by leading with the matters concerning Jun. He knew that Averie felt like she owed Tammy and had taken an interest in Jun’s wedding. “He just wants to give Tammy a push with the wedding.”
Averie immediately understood what he was trying to say. “But what if Tammy doesn’t realize that’s what he is trying to do?” “That means it’s really over for them,” Elyette’s voice was both calm and careful, “If you are set on marrying another man, I am definitely not going to let that wedding happen.” Averie retorted furiously, “Do you think everyone is like you? Who do you think you are to stop me from marrying someone else? I didn’t do a thing when you went to marry Chelsea!”
“I was about to talk to you about this.” Elyette switched the topic to the major issue and softened his tone, “Averie, would you look down on me for having mental illnesses? I don’t need you to answer that right away. When I first decided to compromise with Charlie’s offer, what I thought of was not how the world would see me, but whether or not you and the kids would look down on me, and whether the kids would be affected by others’ opinions.”
“Elyette Foster, do I seem that fragile to you? Do you really think that the kids and I would care about what the world thinks?” Averie interrupted him and said, “Stop lying to yourself. You are afraid of being looked down on by the others, not me or the kids! The fact that you gave up on us at the airport hurt me more than you having mental illnesses!” The other side of the line went silent and after a moment, she continued, “I said it wrongly. The fact that you are mentally ill does not affect me. If your illness is so severe that you are completely out of control and couldn’t tell right from wrong, then I wouldn’t have fallen in love with you in the first place!”
“It happened when I was young,” he explained in a hoarse voice, “I would often get confused as to whether I was mentally ill.”
“Then go see a psychiatrist!” “I did. The doctor said I’m fine.”
“Why would you think that you are ill, then?” She questioned in confusion. “Why were you even diagnosed to be mentally ill when you were young?”
She immediately realized that he would probably refuse to tell her the truth as soon as she asked the question. He had chosen to get a divorce instead of telling her about Shea, and she was the last one to know that he was mentally ill.
This was something about him that irritated her the most. She felt that she was nothing but a pet that entertained him whenever he was in a good mood and that he did not respect her at all. She promised herself that she would never allow herself to be manipulated again.
After a few moments of silence, Elyette asked, “Have you been to Shea’s grave? If not, let’s go there together!”
“I haven’t.” Disappointedly, Averie said, “Why are you talking about Shea, Elyette? Do you take her as a shield to hide all your mistakes? I’m in her debt, not yours. Even if she is your biological sister, the two of you are completely different entities. If you still have a heart in there somewhere, you would stop bringing up her name whenever we discuss our issues. She is not your pawn. She is already dead, can’t you just let her rest in peace?!”
A sharp pain shot through Elyette’s heart and soon spread towards his limbs.
She had misunderstood him. He did not mention Shea to appear innocent, he simply wanted to visit Shea’s grave with Averie and tell her the truth about what happened in the94 past.
Averie asked him why he was diagnosed with mental illnesses when he was young and it had something to do with Shea.
He remembered distinctively that it was a full moon that night because it was the middle of Autumn, and his mother had taken Shea back home to celebrate.
Shea usually stayed out and would only return home on certaind3 occasions.
Elyette was happy to see his sister that day, but his father seemed to be in a bad mood. After having a few glasses to drink, his father suddenly started beating Shea.
All the joy and fantasies were shattered at that very moment,
The servants in the house ran off and Shea was wailing from being beaten; his mother was pulling his father back in an attempt to stop him, but his father shoved her aside forcefully. In the end, his elder brother helped his mother back into her room while his father dragged Shea outside.
The moonlight shone through the night, but all Elyette saw was darkness. He wanted to end the misery and the source of it was his father. If he killed his father, his family would not suffer any longer. That night, he put an end to his father’s life with his own hands.
“Averie, it’s not what you think… Shea is my closest family, how could I…” Elyette tried to explain.
Just then, the door to Averie’s bedroom was pushed open.
Layla held a form in her hand and ran towards Averie
“Mom! Who are you talking to?” Layla stared at Averie’s phone curiously and said, “Our teachers gave us a form and we are to have our parents fill it out before bringing it back to school tomorrow. I almost forgot about it!” Averie swiftly hung up the phone and took the form from her daughter’s hand.
“I will fill it out right now.” Averie set her phone down to look for a pen.
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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