Next to them, Chad gave his seat to Elyette, who, at Jun’s compliment, looked over at Averie’s hands.
Under the yellow lights, her nails shone mysteriously like a cat’s eyes.
After easing the awkwardness, Jun leaned toward Averie and whispered, “I really didn’t bring him here. I just said that I was coming over, and he insists on tagging along-“.
“I don’t blame you,” Averie said.
Relieved, Jun said, “I brought alcohol… They are at the back trunk; let me go get them.”
With that, he dragged Tammy along with him to get the bottles.
Mike felt irritated at the way Chad fawned over Elyette and blurted out while looking at Elyette,” Isn’t a certain someone acting too shameless? Who invited you?”
Elyette looked up calmly. “Have you mistaken yourself as the owner, despite you being the person who is living under someone else’s roof?”
Mike thought, “Under someone else’s roof?! This b*st*rd, Elyette, is saying that I’m staying under someone else’s roof! This might not be my home, but what does he know about my friendship with Averie? We are friends for life!”
Chad brought a chair over, positioned it next to Mike, and muttered, “Don’t be so petty. Averie hasn’t even said anything, so just shut up!”
“Averie! Chase this shameless b*st*rd out!” Mike commanded.
Instantly, everyone’s eyes were on Averie.
Under the pressure, she said, “You are not welcomed here.”
She did not wish to see him, and neither did her children. Ever since he had shown up, the children had stopped eating, and they sat with clenched fists.
After Averie had made her stance, everyone snapped their heads in Elyette’s direction.
If he still wished to preserve his pride, he would have stood and left, but he did not.
“I don’t need you to welcome me.” He sat on the chair, unmoving. “You can’t always get what you want in life, there’s always going to be things that you don’t want to do, but have to; and people whom you hate and have to face.”
Everyone was rendered silent, thinking, “Is he lecturing us?” Mike was so annoyed that he was about to flip the barbeque rack.
Chad took a skewer with cooked meat and shoved it into Mike’s mouth to make sure that he stayed quiet, before walking up to Tammy and Jun, who came back with a few bottles of wine.
“These are great vintages! Did you steal it from your dad’s wine cellar?”
“What do you mean, steal? How can you call it stealing if I’m taking something from my own house?” Jun opened the bottles with an opener.
Chad brought one of the bottles to Mike and poured a glass for Elyette as well. Even Wesley, who could not quite drink, took a glass. “It’s a fun night, so I should drink a bit as well.”
“Are you in a good mood, Mr. Brook?” Tammy poured wine into his glass and looked over at Averie. “Averie, you want some?”
Averie shook her head. “I need to take care of the kids. You guys go ahead!”
“Alright! I will deal with this unwelcome guest of yours!” said Tammy, before sitting down next to Elyette. “Mr. Foster, why aren’t you staying with your fiancé at the hospital? You can’t possibly be thinking of dumping her now that she has had a miscarriage, can you? You can’t be that much of a scumbag, can you? Are you only in a relationship with her so that she can bear you children?”
Everyone fell into silence at Tammy’s confrontational questions.
Tammy truly was brave, and Mike suddenly felt that he was nothing but a child compared to Tammy.
Elyette’s expression darkened.
“I suppose it makes sense. She has to be extremely fragile if she could lose the baby from such a small fall. If I were you, I would have dumped her as well!” Tammy continued making sarcastic remarks. “I think Ms. Sanford weighs about fifty kilograms right? Averie here is just forty-something, so I wonder how Averie had managed to shove her to the ground despite the weight difference. Do you not have surveillance cameras at your house? Let’s see the footage! If Averie truly is such a bad person, I will be the first to cut all ties with her.”
Jun could feel the storm brewing, and he set his glass down and covered Tammy’s mouth. Then, moved her away from Elyette.
Seeing how awkward the atmosphere was, Chad raised his glass and said, “Let’s not talk about such unpleasant things! Let’s drink! No one is going home sober!”
No one responded, and it felt even more awkward.
Just then, Wesley raised his glass to clink glasses with him.
“Who are you going to drink with? You don’t have the best alcohol tolerance,” teased Mike. “I can literally drink you under in half an hour.”
“Let’s time it then! You lose if you can’t bring me down in half an hour!”
“Alright! You are going to lose for sure!”
With that, the two began to drink.
Shortly after, Jun had appeased Tammy, and he went to apologize to Elyette while Tammy sat down next to Averie, helping her with the barbeque.
Twenty minutes later, Layla ran toward Elyette with a skewer of vegetables. She presented it to Elyette and said sweetly, “This is for you!”
Elyette glanced at the “vegetables” in her hand and thought to himself, “Does this kid think that I’m a blink or something? I just saw her pulling grass in the yard. How dare she try to feed me grass!”
“I don’t like vegetables, I only eat meat.” Elyette studied Layla’s face. She resemble Averie, and so he decided not to rat her out.
“Mommy says you shouldn’t be a picky eater! Hurry and eat it!” Layla insisted with a frown.
Naturally, Elyette was not going to accept it.
Just then, Hayden walked over and took Layla away. “That looks too much like grass. He is no fool,” said Hayden calmly.
Frustrated, she said, “So what should we do? I want him to have a stomach ache! I want his stomach to hurt so much that he feels like dying!”
“Laxatives.”
“Where can we find laxatives, Hayden? He says he likes meat, so let’s put some laxative on the meat and feed it to him!”
Elyette heard every single word they said and thought, “Averie is a pretty smart woman, how did she end up raising such foolish children?
Hayden turned around and glanced at Elyette. Coincidentally, Elyette happened to be looking at them.
The father and son stared daggers at one another.
Hayden glared at him and looked away. “Layla, he won’t eat anything we give him.”
“Sigh… Hayden, why do you think he is here?” Layla hated Elyette from the bottom of her heart, but she could not stop herself from sneaking glances at him.
“I don’t know. Are you done eating?”
Layla shook her head. “I’m waiting for Mom to bring the tomato sauce.”
Just then, Averie stepped out of the house with a bottle of ketchup in her hand
Tammy went toward Averie and whispered, “Averie, you don’t have laxatives in your house, do you?”
Averie shook her head. “Why?”
Tammy told her everything that had happened earlier. “I came so close to laughing myself to death. You should have seen the look on Elyette’s face, hahaha! He wanted to explode but couldn ‘t… Our Layla is so cute! After all, who would have the heart to be angry with her?”
Averie was speechless.
It was no wonder Layla had quickly polished off the sauce and asked her to get more. It was so she could get Averie out of the way.
Averie set the meat skewers before her two children and said, “I made these for you. Eat up, and go in once you are done.”
“Oh. Mom, come back inside with us,” Layla said.
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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