"They have a new business, and we are celebrating with cake?" Avery did not understand Mike's actions.
"If not, should we cry?" Mike opened the cake, cut a piece, and passed it to her. "Eat more and think less. I'm starting to suspect that when I'm not home, you don't eat a proper lunch. Why do you look like you have lost some weight?"
"On the contrary. I have been making a good lunch every afternoon." Avery held the cake, picked up her fork, and started eating it. "Lilith said that she's coming over for dinner tonight. Don't tell me it’s to console me too?" "If I knew you were this intuitive, I would not have told you about it." Mike took the remote control and switched off the tv.
"I'm not thinking about all of this. Whether you tell me or not, I know that they are building a new company." Avery pushed the cream on the cake away. "Why did you buy a cake with cream? I prefer tiramisu."
"You have asked me this before, but I'll refresh your memory." Mike shrugged. " Layla and I like eating cake with plenty of cream. As I was missing her, I ordered this cake."
Avery's face grew dark at the mention of Layla.
"Avery, I plan to return to Aryadelle to see Layla and Robert. What do you think?"
Mike said. "Do you want to head back with me? I promise I won't say a word about you returning."
"It's almost winter break! I'll wait for Layla to come over during winter break!” Avery only said that because she did not think she could see her two children if she were to return to Aryadelle.
She was afraid that if she suddenly went back and secretly saw her children, and Elliot found out, it would only be a source of further arguments.
She did not want to fight with him.
Fighting was not only a waste of their emotional energies, but it would also torment the children.
"Okay, then, I'll return to Aryadelle on my own." Mike missed Layla and Robert."
You'll be home alone then. Are you sure you’ll be fine?"
At Aryadelle, Elliot lay in bed. He found it hard to sleep. The branch of Tate Industries in Aryadelle already had its grand opening. He wondered how Avery was feeling. She must hate him, right?
Ever since he had blocked Avery's number, his world was much more peaceful. However, that night, he started to involuntarily think of her thinking back to everything they had gone through together. He also wondered if his targeting her this way was crossing the line.
However, every time he had this thought, he would think about how she had divorced him cruelly without a single care.
A normal person would not be so cruel, even if it was to a toy that had been with them for more than ten years.
He could not forgive her!
When it started to get brighter outside, he finally slept soundly.
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