“Of course! I love mommy the most.”
“Hmm…I thought I heard you say you loved your brother the most the other day.”
Elyette was teasing her.
“Mommy and Hayden are both my favorites!” Layla responded without hesitation.
“What about me?”
Elyette wanted to know where he ranked in his daughter’s heart.
Layla stared at his handsome and mature face.
After careful consideration, she replied, “You must be behind Robert.”
Elyette Foster was quite pleased with this answer.
“As long as I can rank ahead of your Uncle Mike, I’m satisfied.” Layla frowned.
“You are definitely behind Uncle Mike! Why do you think you are ahead? Uncle Mike is very good to me! He is miles better than you.He is better than you in everything, but you are my dad and he is not, and that is the only place where you are better.”
Elyette Foster was speechless.
In order to make what she said sound more convincing, Layla said to Robert who lay awake in his crib, “Little Robert, ain’t your sis right?”
Elyette Foster was frustrated.
Layla said, ‘Look, Robert nodded.”
Elyette Foster had seen everything clearly.
Robert had not nodded at all.
At the end of the day, he was not able to refute his daughter’s claim.
If he did, she would get mad at him.
He knew that he had been overly impatient.
Layla had spent six years of their life together, and they certainly had a strong bond.It was not something that a father who had appeared from nowhere could replace.
“Let’s ask this question again after being with Layla for six or seven years!” Elyette thought.
Averie was in the master bedroom.
Averie kept the identification results safe in the cabinet.
Then she put on a black spring dress.
After coming out of the bedroom, she strode up to the father and daughter.
“What were you two talking about? You guys were so loud.”
Elyette Foster was embarrassed.He did not want to be laughed at for revealing what they had said.
Layla said, “I asked Dad just now who his favorite woman is.He said that he only had one, and he said —””
Elyette Foster sighed helplessly, “Layla, didn’t you promise me that you would not repeat what I said?”
Layla blinked her bright apricot eyes, “But I also promised Mommy that I will tell her everything!”
Averie stole a glance at Elyette proudly.Then she asked Layla, “How did your father answer that question?”
“Dad said his favorite woman was Mommy,” Layla said.
Averie was taken aback for a moment.
Layla’s eyes glittered.
“I asked him if he was talking about his mom or my mom.Mommy, guess what he answered!”
Elyette Foster smacked his forehead with the palm of his hand.
Averie glanced at him with a smile and then turned back to her daughter, “Is he talking about his mother?”
“No! No! No! He said it was my mom, and that’s you! Hahaha!”
Layla’s laughter filled the entire living room.
This was the first time she had laughed so happily in the past few days.
At ten o’clock in the morning, Kiki’s funeral was held at the funeral parlor.
After the wake, Kiki was sent for cremation.
Elyette held Layla in one hand and gave her a tissue with the other so that she could wipe her tears.
“Let’s go home!” Averie said.
“Okay.”
After coming out of the funeral parlor, they were ready to head to the parking lot.
At this moment, a shadowy figure emerged and grabbed the microphone.
“Mr.Foster, the annihilation of the Tierney family.That’s your doing, isn’t it?”
The bodyguard was quick to block off the reporter.
Elyette saw that his daughter was frightened and had planned to take her to the car.
However, Averie’s feet were firmly planted in place.
Elyette Foster might not have cared what the outside world thinks of him, but she cared!
“Do you know how the girl who you had the memorial for died?”
Averie took the reporter’s microphone and said loudly, “The girl’s name was Kiki.She was only six and a half years old this year.Not even seven.She was my daughter’s classmate.She was poisoned by
Chelsea Tierney.Do you have children? Would you really want reporters to ask you questions at the memorial service of your dead child?”
The reporter was ashamed.
“Miss Tate, I have no intentions of asking you questions in an effort to clear up the Tierney name.I was only watching Mrs.Tierney’s interview—”
“If you aren’t clearing up the Tierney name, then how dare you ask if Elyette is the one who destroyed the Tierney family? Do you have any proof?”
Averie’s questions were fast and to the point.
“I didn’t watch Mrs.Tierney’s interview, but since Mrs.Tierney is still alive, why are you saying that the Tierney family has been annihilated? Is Mrs.Tierney not a human being?”
The reporter had no answers to her questions.
“Instead of coming here and asking questions, you might as well spend your time investigating all the illegal and malicious activities that the Tierneys have racked up over the years!”
After making her point, she returned the microphone to the reporter.
Averie’s cheeks were slightly red when she got into the car, but she was still extremely agitated.
Elyette uncapped a bottle of water handed it to her.
“Thank you for defending me just now.”
“I wasn’t defending you.I was only telling him the truth.”
Averie took a sip, “I know you won’t bother with these reporters, but this is a funeral.How dare these people come here and make a scene?”
“They wanted a headline,” said Elyette.
“No matter what, their headlines have to be rooted in facts.”
“Don’t be mad.Let’s get home.”
“Alright.”
After returning home and having lunch, Elyette led Averie back to her room.
“Why are you pulling me into the room? We just got back!” said Averie as her heart thundered in her chest.
She saw him shutting the door behind them.
“What was in the parcel?” Elyette wanted to help her solve her problems.
She stared at him blankly.She could not figure out his motivation for asking her this question.
“Didn’t I tell you this morning?”
“Layla said that you were unhappy after going through the documents inside.” Elyette said frankly, “She was very worried about you, so she told me.”
Averie was moved by her daughter, but Layla’s inability to keep a secret troubled her slightly.
Averie took a deep breath and sat down on the bed.
“I did a DNA test for a patient of mine.The results show that his genes are rather unusual.He has a strand of DNA that matches that of an extinct species of gorilla…”
Averie’s discovery fascinated Elyette.
“Are you now going to accept that you are not who you think you are?”
Averie could tell that he was shocked by her discovery.
”For example, you are not actually the master of the Foster family—”
“Are you trying to tell me that you think I’m an extinct species of gorilla?” he asked rhetorically.
“I didn’t say you were a gorilla, I meant—”
“I know what you mean.Humans actually have a common ancestor.This is a fact that scientists have long discovered,” he said.
Her temples throbbed.
“Of course, I’m not going to blindly accept that I’m not who I think I am,” he said.
He paused for a moment, “I’m also not going to accept that I’m a gorilla.”
She did not expect that answer.She had thought that he had not cared about his identity.
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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