Elliot and Avery novel Chapter 767

Chapter 767 

Avery turned around with Robert in her arms and was about to leave, when she heard Elliot coughing 

She immediately stopped on her track. 

Elliot didn‘t cough all that often and would only do so when he was ill.

She strode to the stairs where Mrs. Scarlet was waiting and handed Robert to her, before turning around to head back into the study room. She strolled towards him and studied his flushed cheeks resulting from the constant coughing. 

There was a strong emotion in the air that no one could label, but it felt like something would explode at the softest touch. 

"Are you sick?" Avery asked and reached up to touch his forehead to test his temperature.

Elliot took a few steps back.

 "It‘s just a cold. I don‘t have a fever." 

Avery closed in on him and asked, "did you ask me to take Robert away because you are sick and don‘t want him to catch it, not because you don‘t want to see him?" 

He stared at her with dark, brooding eyes and answered honestly, "both. Who asked you here? “

"No one asked me here. I‘m just here because I want to," she said wilfully, before circling around his desk and turning off his laptop. She then took him by the arm and dragged him out of the study room."A cold might not be that big of a deal, but your recovery will be really slow if you don‘t rest. I know that maybe you just want to keep being sick so that you won‘t have to have Robert, but running doesn‘t solve any problem." 

"And you are here to solve the problem," he summarized and guessed at the same time, "you want me to welcome the child with joy like everyone else and raise him together with you, is that right?" 

"I did think of that before, but I know it‘s too hard for you. I don‘t want to put you on the spot, so I will raise my own child, but you don‘t have to act like you can‘t even look at him, like he is a murderer!" Avery instantly lost control of her emotions. 

She let go of his arm, her chest heaving rapidly. "If Shea was still alive, she definitely wouldn‘t want your relationship with Robert to be so weird because of her!" 

Provoked by the mention of Shea‘s name, Elliot‘s expression darkened he started walking back to his bedroom.