Avery froze.She had not expected Elliot to have guests over.
Elliot had never had the habit of inviting guests over, and because the others weren't speaking out loud,
she had not heard them at all before she went downstairs.
Avery's face flushed three seconds after being stared at by the others and she immediately turned
around to head back upstairs.
She had been quiet when she went down the stairs, but extremely loud when she headed back up.
Back in the living room, the others looked away.
"Elliot, that's the woman you are marrying this time? "
"Isn't that the same woman? Have you forgotten that she almost killed you?"
"I was wondering why she looked so familiar? She was the same woman from last time? Elliot, you sure
are loyal!"
"It's not like that.That woman gave birth to Elliot's children.Three of them! That's not bad!"
"But Elliot doesn't like kids!"
"Hahaha! He doesn't like others' kids, but he's bound to like his own, right?"
The others discussed cheerfully in front of Elliot; while Elliot blushed and listened to their comments
calmly.
He and Avery had already set aside all their resentment from the past.
Upstairs, Avery had already arrived outside the bedroom door when she came to a sudden realization
and stopped.
She remembered that she had seen the people in the living room before, in the mansion in the forest.
Though some of them were strangers, she had seen a few of the men in the mansion before.
‘Why are those people here? Did Elliot invite them, or did they show up on their own? What are their
relationships with Elliot?’ She thought.
Instinctively, she felt that those were not decent people, because there was someone she knew in their
group, but that person wasn't in the living room just now.
That person had gone to Professor Hough for treatment before and she was the professor's assistant
during the surgery.
She knew about the man's background: a businessman who benefited from businesses that were in the
gray area of the law of Bridgedale.
As a doctor, one couldn’t choose whether to treat a patient based on their nature; sometimes, a doctor
wouldn't even get to know if their patient was a good person until after the surgery.
She was far too curious about why those people had come to visit Elliot.
She took her slippers off snuck downstairs bare-footed, intending to hide around the corner of the stairs
to eavesdrop.
"Elliot, I heard that your two eldest kids are not inheriting your family name, how can you put up with
that?"
One of the men raised his voice furiously, as though he was talking about his own children.
"After you and Avery get married, those kids are going to change their surname, right? How can you let
them inherit a woman's surname? Everyone is going to mock you if word gets out about this! In our
country, when a woman marries a man, she changes her surname to her husband's! It's bad enough that
you are not asking her to change her name, but you have to change the kids' names!"
Another man protested out of concern for Elliot.
"I don't care if my kids share my family name, so long as they are my kids," Elliot said.
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