"Hey, Elliot. Did you take Shea to the hospital for her checkup already? Didn't we agree to go together?" Zoe said disconcertedly.
She had driven to the Foster mansion, but Mrs. Cooper told her that Elliot had already left the house with Shea.
Elliot watched the bustling hospital entrance, then said plainly, "The results were fine."
"I see. That's good. I'm already preparing a third treatment p[lan for Shea," Zoe said enthusiastically. "I have a new idea. If everything goes well, we should be able to proceed with her third surgery later in the year.”
"Can you guarantee that a third surgery would turn her back to normal?"
Zoe was stunned.
Even a miracle worker would not be able to guarantee they could successfully cure a patient.
"I'm not a hundred percent certain, but I think..."
"In that case, let's just stop this!" Elliot said coldly. "Come to me again once you have a hundred percent guarantee."
Zoe was shocked by his words.
"Elliot... Are you saying you want to stop Shea's treatment? Or perhaps... Have you found a better doctor?" she asked with a slight tremor in her voice.
Never in her wildest dreams did she expect Elliot to make such a decision.
Could it be that he found out that she was not the one who operated on Shea the first two times?
However, if he knew about that, he would not have called her to check on Shea last night!
"That's not it," Elliot said as all the warmth vanished from his voice. "Zoe, you could have used the money I gave you to buy anything you wanted, but you invested in Wanda Tate instead.”
Avery's resentment toward him was not purely because he had given up on their relationship in the past for the sake of keeping his secret. It was also because Zoe and Wanda were between them.
Elliot pondered a lot while he was in Shea's room last night.
The more he thought about it, the more he understood Avery's suffering.
It was true that everyone had their own hardships to endure. He could not undo his past mistakes, but he wanted to do his best to not repeat his wrongs in the future.
After hearing Elliot's explanation, Zoe sobbed silently.
"I'm sorry, Elliot... I didn’t know how much you still loved Avery Tate."
"You knew," Elliot said, exposing her lies.
Zoe did not expect him to be this blunt!
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