Elliot was more surprised than anything because he felt that the child he had with Ruby—if indeed there was one and it turned out to be a daughter—would have looked like anybody but Layla.
Layla's facial features resembled Avery's.
After agreeing to Ruby's friend request, Elliot looked at the screen of his phone and waited for Ruby to send a photo.
His heart beat even faster when he looked at the words 'sending photo' next to Ruby's name.
Out of nowhere, Robert stretched out his little hand and smacked the phone sharply, sending it crashing onto the ground.
Robert wanted to see the photos and got angry when Elliot did not show him the photos anymore.
After knocking the phone onto the ground, the little boy snorted angrily and struggled to get down.
Elliot held him with one hand and picked up the phone with the other.
"Don't get angry! I'll show you the photos!" Elliot whispered. "You have a really big temper for a little guy. Even your mother isn't as fierce as you."
Robert seemed to sense that Elliot was not being particularly nice and so groaned again. He only kept quiet once Elliot picked up the phone and reopened the photo, Robert became quiet.
He received three new messages after that but did not dare to open them immediately.
After a while, Mrs. Cooper came over with two bowls of soup.
"Master Elliot, your soup is ready. Please enjoy it with Robert." Mrs. Cooper put the soup on the table.
When Robert laid eyes on Mrs. Cooper, he immediately slipped off the sofa and walked to her.
Elliot smiled and said, "Robert wasn't good at recognizing people before! Now he knows how to choose the people he wants to be with."
"It means he's grown up." Mrs. Cooper carried Robert onto the children's dining chair and sat beside him to feed him some
He frowned in confusion ;d%
Since he did not reply, she sent him another message. [I have a hunch that the baby is a girl.]
Elliot liked daughters very much, and the reason he showed no aversion to girls was because of Layla.
He did not feel any aversion to the children he had with Avery, of course, but he did not concern himself with anyone else's children—not even those he had with another woman.
He went into Ruby’s profile, tapped on the three dots, and was ready to delete her.
At that point, she sent another two messages.
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[Here's a picture I made to compare Layla and our baby. They do look similar.]
Elliot took a deep breath, went back to the chat, and clicked on the picture Ruby sent. Simply looking at the ultrasound image alone did not reveal even the slightest resemblance between Layla and Ruby's baby.
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