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Avery was afraid that he was about to strike Wanda.
She rushed to the bodyguard’s side and held him back.
“Don’t touch her! Her daughter just died. It’s only natural that she’d be emotional.
“Ha… I guess you haven’t been kicked out of the Foster family yet! You’re pretty good at seducing men, aren’t you?” Wanda mocked.
The bodyguard raised his arm in preparation to slap Wanda across the face.
Avery stopped him once again and said, “Get back in the car. I’ll get in after a word with her.”
The bodyguard shot an intimidating glare at Wanda, warning her not to lay a finger on Avery.
Wanda felt a chill run down her spine, but she had to put up with it.
Now that her daughter was dead, she had to stay alive!
That was the only way she could avenge Cassandra.
Once the bodyguard returned to the car, Avery turned to Wanda and said, “Say what you want about the murderer, but don’t you dare bring up my father! You’re the first person he’d go after if he came back from the dead. You gave your brother a position at Dad’s company and embezzled three hundred million dollars in a matter of years… I’ll make sure you pay back every penny you took from him!”
“That was my brother’s work. What does it have to do with me? Did you think that I wanted the Tate family to go bankrupt?!”
Wanda scowled. “I spent all those years with your father. Do you really think I’d do that to him?!”
“You say that, and yet you’re using the money your brother stole to live it up abroad. I doubt you’d have ever come back here if it weren’t for Cassandra’s death!”
Wanda’s face turned scarlet with fury.
“Shaun told me everything!” she yelled. “You took your father’s Super Brain program for yourself! Shaun said that your father spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop the program. What right do you have to chastise me?!”
“Of course, I have the right,” Avery responded. “The things I have were given to me by my A
father, but you stole from him! You’re all a bunch of thieves! I’ll make sure your brother coughs up every last penny that he took from Dad. I’ll make sure he rots in prison!”
Wanda’s blood pressure was soaring, but she had no words to fight back.
All she could do in the end was watch Avery get in the car and speed off.
The moment she shut the car door, Avery quickly composed herself.
She turned to Elliot and asked, “What are you doing here?”
Elliot passed her a bottle of water and answered, “I knew Wanda was coming. I was afraid she would pick a fight with you.”
“Am I that weak?” Avery asked as she took a sip of water.
“You only put up a strong front in front of me,” Elliot replied blandly.
Avery glared at him, then said, “I’m hungry. I don’t have the energy to argue.”
“Should we eat out?” Elliot suggested. “What do you feel like?”
“Anything’s fine,” Avery said, then a thought suddenly popped into her head and she added,” I feel like having my mom’s cooking.”
“Should we go to your mom’s place?”
Avery glanced over at Elliot’s legs, then said, “Forget it! The building isn’t wheelchair accessible. It won’t be convenient for you.”
“We could head home and get the walking stick.”
“If we’re going home, we might as well just eat at home. Why bother going to my mom’s?”
“You said you wanted to eat your mom’s cooking.”
“I was just saying that.”
Avery did not expect him to take her words that seriously.
Elliot pulled out his phone and made a call.
Avery stared at him and wondered who he was calling.
A moment later, Laura’s voice came through his phone. “Hello? Elliot?”
“Yes, Mom. It’s me,” Elliot answered.
Avery choked and began to cough violently.
He actually called her mother “Mom”!
“Here’s the thing. Avery said she feels like eating your cooking, but it’s not convenient for me to go to your place. I’m thinking of booking a restaurant nearby, and I was wondering if you’ll be able to come and cook there,” Elliot said in a gentle and calm voice.
“Sure! Just send me the address and I’ll be right over,” replied Laura.
“Thank you,” Elliot said, then hung up the phone and sent an address to Laura.
Avery stared at him in complete shock, completely bewildered by his actions.
“Are you insane? I was just simply saying that… You actually called my mom out to cook for me?!” Avery exclaimed. “You never used to take my words seriously. What’s going on with
you?”
“I’ll take you seriously from now on,” Elliot said as his eyes and tone turned serious.
A wave of warmth washed over Avery and turned her cheeks red. She felt like she could hear her heart thumping wildly in her chest.
“Don’t!” she cried. “What if I say I want to kill you the next time we fight? Would you just go ahead and kill yourself?”
“Can you stop thinking about picking fights with me all the time?”
“That’s because we always have different opinions. I think that’s normal, though. Where in the world would you find two people who agree on everything?”
“Perhaps they exist. We just haven’t met them yet.”
“I wouldn’t want to find someone who agrees with everything I say to spend the rest of my life with. What’s the fun in that?” Avery said as her gaze lowered and her ears turned a rosy pink. “The occasional bickering keeps the spark alive.”
‘Elliot gazed deeply at her.
“You can go find someone more agreeable if you want. I won’t stop you,” Avery said.
Elliot’s smoldering eyes made her heart race, so she could not help but run her mouth at him.
“There are more important things in my life than dating,” she added.
“I didn’t say anything. Stop overthinking,” Elliot said in frustration.
Avery opened up the bottle of water and took another sip.
“Don’t you think you’re going too far by calling my mom out to cook like this?” she mumbled. “It’s not like she’s a servant. I’d be mad if I were her.”
“You’ve never been a mother yourself, Avery, so you wouldn’t understand how your mom feels about this.”
What Elliot meant by his words was that Laura was probably not angry.
How could she be mad about cooking for her own child? It was not like she was cooking for her every day.
Elliot had no idea that his words pierced through Avery’s heart.
“Do you think I don’t want to be a mother? You’re the one who wouldn’t let me!”
When Elliot saw Avery’s reddened eyes, he realized that he made a huge mistake.
His lips moved as if he was about to say something, but he was at a loss for words.
“Is your depression the reason you don’t want children?” Avery asked softly after a moment of silence. “Depression won’t necessarily affect the child. The doctor would recommend terminating the pregnancy if they find something wrong during the checkups. You don’t get to decide whether or not a child gets to be born.”