If only his father was an ordinary father like any other, he would not have become Elliot Foster, known
for being ferocious and cruel.
Avery stared at him dazedly, unable to say a word.She had never imagined that behind his seemingly
successful life, hid such a miserable past.
She had thought that she had it hard enough after her father’s affair, her parents’ divorce and being
bullied by her step-mother, she hadn’t expected that Elliot had it worse than her.
Her misery was on the outside and everyone knew about it; whereas his could only be hidden away
within his heart.
"Don’t look at me like that, Avery." He scowled.
"I don’t need your pity." She shook her head.
"I’m not pitying you.I am just thinking if we would have saved all the trouble if only you had told me this
earlier."
"My personality made it impossible for me to tell you any earlier than this," he said as he strolled
forward.
"My love for you accumulated day after day until it reached a certain level, before I could completely
open up to you.Avery Tate, I want to be with you; not because of the children or out of impulse."
"I hate this about you," she complained, "I’ve told you everything about me in the first year we started
seeing each other, yet you have been keeping secrets.You say that you didn’t understand the concept
of true love until now, when our children are almost at my height.How ridiculous is that? Why don’t you
wait and tell me all that when I am old and gray?"
He turned around to look at her.
"I’m sorry."
"Apologizing means nothing.It doesn’t make me feel any better and it only reminds me of how broken-
hearted your fickleness has left me."She handed him his jacket and continued,"The new heels are
hurting my feet.I should head home now."
She bought those heels when she went shopping with Tammy the last time.
They felt comfortable when she tried them on at the time, but she just realized they didn’t fit after
walking some distance in them.
It was just like how a couple would attract one another with their strengths, before finally realizing each
other’s’ shortcomings in the long run.
"Avery, do you really think that I am a fickle man?" He asked.
"Believe it or not, Elliot, your absence would have saved me from ninety percent of the pain and trouble
I’ve suffered so far,"
Avery said with certainty, "Of course, the kids are exceptions.”
"You are right, but to me, I have not been heartless to you.Other than Shea, you are the one woman
that I care most for."
With that, he strode off.
Avery was stunned for a moment, thinking, ‘He left just like that? Is he angry? He said that he cares for
me and now he is leaving me on the street? I just mentioned that the heels are hurting my feet and he
intends on just letting me walk back to the hotel? Though, I wouldn’t have let him carry me back even if
he proposed to do so…’
Avery sighed a heavy breath and took out her phone to find a message from Tammy.
‘Avery, I feel like the colors have finally returned to my world.I knew the gods wouldn’t be this cruel to
me.Jun is still the man I know.He didn’t abandon me.I won’t act rashly everie again"
‘Yeah! What are you doing now?’ Avery replied.
‘We are back at our place together.I am cleaning up the room.Jun and Ben are chatting in the living
room"
‘You are cleaning on your own? Get the maid to do it!” I asked to clean myself.
Regaining what I’ve lost felt like winning the lottery, you know?’ Avery could not understand the feeling
Tammy was speaking of because her relationship with Elliot was stuck and rather awkward.
‘Why are you replying to my message though? Aren’t you with Elliot? You two are not together?’
Tammy asked.
‘He left and I am getting ready to go home" Avery replied.
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