Chad cast Ben a look, and Ben immediately stepped in to have a look. “What happened?”
Chad walked toward him and whispered, “Averie’s son is too good at pissing people off.”
“Oh… Well, I am mad, too!” huffed Ben. “Isn’t that kid just four years old? How can he be this good? This makes me feel like everyone in the network security department is all trash!”
It was hard to respond to what Ben had said. After all, all the employees of the network security department were talented people.
“Maybe it’s because Hayden has a good teacher.”
“Oh, you mean Mike?”
Chad blushed slightly and left. He was escaping from any further discussion of the subject.
Ben and Elyette headed to a restaurant near the company. After ordering, Ben asked in a voice laced with jealousy, “Did you all go to Averie’s for a barbeque? Why didn’t you call me?”
“Do you know why Hayden Tate decided to hack my company’s network?” Elyette asked.
“Because he hates you!”
“I went uninvited.”
Shocked, Ben asked, “Elyette, since when have you grown so thick-skinned?”
“I wanted to know why Averie was in a good mood.” Elyette took a sip of his tea. To his understanding, people would only invite their friends for a barbeque when they were happy.
“So did you find out after going there last night?”
Elyette shook his head. “They didn’t welcome me.”
Ben suddenly felt sorry for him. “Just don’t go over there if you aren’t welcomed. I can treat you to whatever you want to eat.”
“Their displeasure does not affect my mood.” Elyette set his cup down calmly.
Seeing how composed Elyette was, Ben smiled and said, “You just can’t help but go looking for Averie, can you? You canceled your engagement because of her.”
“You are wrong,” Elyette corrected him. “The main reason I canceled my engagement is because I don’t love Zoe.”
“Though I don’t like Zoe, I have to say, she has suffered quite a lot this time. She lost you and her child… Do you really not feel anything for that child? That’s your child, after all, and it would have been born into the world in a few mouths’ time had it not been for the miscarriage, “Ben said regretfully.
Elyette remained expressionless, and his voice was cold and void of emotion. “If I have to have a child, I do not want it to come from another woman.”
Elyette might as well just be blunt and say that he only wanted Averie to bear his children and that he did not care if his children with any other woman died, because he did not want them to begin with
“So you want Averie to bear your child, then?” Ben teased.
“Yeah.”
Ben gasped and almost dropped his cup. “You really want her to bear your child?!”
“Zoe asked that I avenge our child’s death.”
“So you are trying to get Averie pregnant with your child as revenge?” Ben was amused. “Zoe is probably going to cry so much that she passes out if she learns that this is your way of taking revenge.”
“How I take my revenge is up to me.”
“Is Averie willing to do it?” Ben instinctively knew that there was more to the story.
Averie already had two children, and even if Hayden was adopted, Ben could tell that she saw Hayden as her own from the way she treated him. It was only natural that she was unwilling to give birth to any more children.
“She isn’t.” Elyette scowled. “She hates me now.”
“Of course, she is going to hate you if you are forcing her to have your baby!”
Ben was surprised by Elyette’s radical actions. Although Elyette had never been a gentleman, Elyette was not a barbarian. Ben was certain that Averie did not mean for Zoe to lose his baby, so why would Elyette try and get Averie pregnant with his child as a form of revenge?
It only made sense if Elyette was trying to keep Averie to himself.
“She has a scar across her abdomen,” Elyette said in a hoarse voice, “That scar is a reminder that she has had a child with another man. Even if he had not touched her, she had still gotten pregnant with another man’s child. I can’t stay calm whenever I think of it.”
It formed a huge part of the reason why he wanted Averie to bear his child. The smaller part of why he wanted her to bear his child was dedicated to revenge. He wanted the child now even though he had never thought of raising a child before.
“Elyette, if you want her and only her to bear your child, it means that you still love her.” Ben studied the miserable expression on Elyette’s face and ordered a bottle of wine.
“Is this love?” Elyette mumbled dazedly, “But she doesn’t want me.” “I heard that a woman falls deeply in love with a man when she is pregnant with his child, so maybe you aren’t wrong in wanting her to bear your child,” Ben said.
Elyette’s eyes gleamed. It did not matter if it was right or wrong when he had already done it.
A week later, Tammy dragged Averie along with her to shop for wedding dresses.
“Averie, have you ever been in a wedding dress before?” Tammy was excited over trying on wedding dresses.
Averie shook her head. “I have put on gowns that resemble wedding dresses before.”
“Wedding dresses are different from ordinary gowns. Why don’t you try one on today? You have such a perfect figure and fair skin, you are definitely going to look beautiful in a wedding dress!” Tammy said as she picked out a white wedding dress from the shop. “What do you think of this one, Averie? It looks quite similar to the one I had custom-made!”
Averie flushed at the sight of the wedding dress. She did not have a boyfriend, nor did she plan on getting married, so there was no point for her to try on a wedding dress.
“You go on ahead, Tammy! I don’t want to,” she refused while blushing.
“I will wear the one I ordered and you can wear this! We would have matching dresses!” said Tammy, ignoring Averie’s protests. She told the staff to take down the dress and dragged Averie into the dressing room.
“Tammy, are going to select a man for me too so that we might get married together?” Averie said sarcastically.
“I would love that, but there’s no man worthy enough for you!”
Averie could not help but chuckle.
An hour later, Tammy had posted a compilation of nine photos on her social media account. The photos were of her in a wedding dress, and there were also some photos of Averie in her dress.
Within five minutes, someone had shared Averie’s photo with Elyette.
He zoomed in on her face and scowled. “Why is she wearing a wedding dress? Does she want to get married?” he thought.
When he saw how cheerful she was in the photo, his heart ached at the realization that it had been so long since she had last smiled at him. It was almost five years ago.
In the wedding dress shop, Averie had taken the wedding dress off and picked out a light purple dress to wear to Tammy’s wedding.
“I will be thirty in a few years, and I won’t get to wear dresses like this by then,” she said. “I should buy a few more like this one while I can still pretend to be young.”
“Averie, with your face, people would believe you even if you say you are twenty. It’s not like you will grow old overnight when you are thirty, so relax and be young all you want!”
“That sweet tongue of yours! No wonder you have Jun wrapped around your fingers,” Averie said with a smile.
“He is the one who benefited from me choosing him, okay?” After trying on the dresses she had ordered, Tammy said with satisfaction, “All that’s left right now is to wait for the wedding! Oh, isn’t the kids’ birthday soon? How do you plan on spending it?”
“At home.”
“Huh?! There won’t be a party? Or are you throwing a small party at home?” Tammy had already picked out gifts for her god-children and had been waiting for an invitation from Averie.
Averie shook her head. “I thought about it and decided not to celebrate their birthdays.”
She had decided against it out of fear of drawing Elyette’s attention. She had lied to Elyette about the children. She had told him that Hayden was adopted, and Layla was a test-tube baby. If Elyette ever found out that the children shared a birthday, he would surely suspect something.
“You are doing it because of Elyette, right? That guy really doesn’t know when to call the quits! “Tammy frowned. “But can you really keep this a secret for the rest of your life? Don’t worry, I definitely won’t tell Jun. I’m just worried that Elyette might get suspicious someday and start looking into it.”
Averie’s head hurt at the thought of anything related to Elyette. She wanted to stay away from him, but the more she tried, the messier their relationship had become. It was almost as though fate was taunting her.
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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