Anger was boiling within Elliot’s eyes. The word 'shank' was like a sharp blade that was sent piercing through his heart. To him, Avery had always been the purest, most innocent person in the world, so she couldn’t possibly be the woman in the video.
However, no matter how reluctant he was to admit it, the woman's face and voice, along with her pregnant belly were all proving Elliot wrong.
"I've known you for almost twenty years now, Elliot, do you think I would hurt you?" Ben saw the pain in Elliot's eyes and felt sorry for him. "If you don’t believe me, you can go ask Chelsea. We ran into the scene together that night. Do you know why we held back from telling you about it? It's because we wanted Avery to give birth to your child and we didn't want to cause any trouble at this time... But it turns out that Avery is shameless enough to record a tape like this!"
"Don't you think that the video is blurred out?" Elliot's senses and urges were playing a tug of war within him and tore him apart as they did. "That video has to be fake!"
Ben had never seen Elliot like this.
Elliot was never afraid of adversity or failure. They had encountered dangerous situations countless times before, with the company almost going bankrupt in the most difficult moment. Elliot came close to bearing a tremendous debt, but didn't even flinch at the time.
Who would have thought that a man like that would struggle to accept the fact that
Avery had cheated on him?
"Let's say the video is fake. So is the voice I heard in Caesar Hotel fake as well?" Ben pressed on sarcastically. "I went to the reception to check right away that night and Avery was indeed in the hotel. I called her that night but her phone was turned off. She didn't call me back until the day after and she admitted herself that she was in Caesar Hotel!"
Ben spoke quickly and his words were piercing. "That bed in the video is one of the beds in Caesar Hotel!"
Elliot’s eyes reddened. He supported his head with pale fingers and sank into silence as he suffered through excruciating pain.
A voice inside his head told him to believe in Avery unconditionally; but there was also another voice that told him to give up : a"=YIR; accept the reality.
He could feel himself being torn apart little by little.
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