Elliot might as well just be blunt and say that he only wanted Avery to bear his children and that he did not care if his children with any other woman died, because he did not want them to begin with. "So you want Avery to bear your child, then?" Ben teased. "Yeah."Ben gasped and almost dropped his cup. "You really want her to bear your child?!""Zoe asked that I avenge our child's death.""So you are trying to get Avery pregnant with your child as revenge?" Ben was amused. "Zoe is probably going to cry so much that she passes out if she learns that this is your way of taking revenge.""How I take my revenge is up to me.""Is Avery willing to do it?" Ben instinctively knew that there was more to the story.Avery already had two children, and even if Hayden was adopted, Ben could tell that she saw Hayden as her own from the way she treated him. It was only natural that she was unwilling to give birth to any more children."She isn't." Elliot scowled. "She hates me now.""O

When he saw how cheerful she was in the photo, his heart ached at the realization that it had been so long since she had last smiled at him. It was almost five years ago. In the wedding dress shop, Avery had taken the wedding dress off and picked out a light purple dress to wear to Tammy's wedding. "I will be thirty in a few years, and I won't get to wear dresses like this by then," she said. "I should buy a few more like this one while I can still pretend to be young.""Avery, with your face, people would believe you even if you say you are twenty. It's not like you will grow old overnight when you are thirty, so relax and be young all you want!""That sweet tongue of yours! No wonder you have Jun wrapped around your fingers," Avery said with a smile. "He is the one who benefited from me choosing him, okay?" After trying on the dresses she had ordered, Tammy said with satisfaction, "All that's left right now is to wait for the wedding! Oh, isn't the kids' birthday soon? How do

Tammy and Avery were seated next to the window. They had a good view. "Mom!" Layla ran toward Avery while holding her brother's hand. Avery lifted them up and sat them down on the couch. "Did you have fun in kindergarten today?"Layla shook her head. "Mom, the teacher says we need to poke our fingers next week… I'm scared…""It's a blood test. They are going to check our blood sugar levels," said Hayden. Realizing what her daughter meant, Avery immediately comforted her and said, "Don't be scared, baby. It will just be a pinch."Layla's attention was instantly drawn toward the cake on the table. "Mom, whose birthday is it today, Aunt Tammy?"Tammy shook her head with a smile. "We are having an early celebration for you and your brother's birthday! Surprised?" She then took out two beautifully wrapped gifts and handed them to the children. "I am!" Layla accepted the gift excitedly and said, "Thank you, Aunt Tammy! I love you so much!""I love you too!" Tammy patted Layla

When Elliot appeared by the table, Avery was about to take a bite of the cake and she almost snapped the plastic fork in half at the sight of him. What were the odds that she would run into him in the rare chance that she dined out?Tammy frowned. "What a coincidence, Mr. Foster. Do you have a meeting here?"She waved at the group behind Elliot sarcastically, and the others gave her smiles that were both polite and careful at the same time. Elliot glanced at the cake on the table and looked at the two children. "It's your birthday?" His voice was low, powerful, and confused. He remembered that Hayden's birthday was on the 13th of April, not today. Avery's blood ran cold at that very instant. She had not wanted to celebrate their birthday because she feared that he would get suspicious. Yet, he had still caught them celebrating in secret.Elliot studied the panicked and anxious expression on Avery's face thoughtfully."So Hayden's birthday isn't on the 13th of April, but today

The message was simple. It was telling her to compensate him. Avery scowled and replied, [Not tonight.]Elliot replied swiftly once the message was sent, and she could picture the rage on his face when she read his reply. [I'm not negotiating with you, I'm commanding you.]That was his reply. She stared at each of the words in his message with composure and replied. [Have you forgotten that women get menstruation? Or are you going to do it despite the blood?[Still want to?]['Are you challenging me?] Elliot replied. Avery dared not answer his question. Naturally, she would not have the courage to actually challenge him. She feared that he might actually tell her to spend the night with him despite the blood.…On the second floor of the restaurant, Elliot set his phone down when Avery did not reply. No one dared to whisper a word when he was texting. The conversation only picked up again when he set his phone down. "Mr. Foster, that lady downstairs is the CEO of Tate

The nurse walked over to the car and handed a blood sample to Rosalie. "It went smoothly?" Rosalie accepted the vial of blood in joy. The nurse nodded. "His sister was afraid of the pain, so he did the blood test to set an example for his sister. The siblings are really close." Rosalie was only interested in Hayden. Layla did not look like Elliot at all, and she had heard that Layla was the child Avery had had with another man. Even if Hayden was Elliot's son, Rosalie did not intend on accepting Avery. How would people view Elliot if they were to accept Avery, a woman who had given birth to another man's child?She placed the vial away carefully and shut the car door. The car headed toward the medical center that performed the DNA test. Once they arrived, Rosalie handed the blood samples of Elliot and Hayden to the staff. "How long until the results are out?""Usually three working days. We will inform you as soon as the results are out," said a member of the staff. Ros

There was a beautiful invitation letter on the office desk. Avery opened the envelope and glanced at the contents of the letter. It was an invitation to a summit.Mike came. He saw her holding the invitation and said, "If you don't want to go—""I'll go," she said, before opening her purse to take out her lipstick. She began fixing her makeup.Mike exclaimed, "You are provoked, aren't you? Is that your new lipstick? It is such a bright color! You usually look quite gentle, but with that, you look like a queen. Wanda would be no match for you even if she multiplied herself by ten."Once Avery was done, she placed her powder and lipstick back in her purse and looked at Mike. "Are you coming with me?""Of course. I'll be your driver."Elites of all fields had gathered for the summit. Upon Avery's arrival, she was immediately invited backstage by the organizer. "Miss Tate, we need you to give a speech later. You'll need to speak for about twenty minutes. You might want to prepa

At the summit, Mike and Chad had been arguing for over twenty minutes, and they were both exhausted. "You are being unreasonable!" said Chad readjusting his spectacles. Mike snorted. "You lose your mind every time you mention your boss. You need to do some self-reflecting! Your boss isn't your dad, why do you claim to know him?""You are the one who needs self-reflection! Why do you care who my boss invests in? Even if he did place his money on Wanda Tate, it only means that she has that sort of value! It doesn't mean that he likes her as a person!" Chad argued. "Don't call me out for drinks from now on! If you all teaming up with Wanda Tate, then it's best we don't meet again! I'm on Avery's side!" declared Mike, severing all ties with Chad. Chad's face was flushed with frustration. "Sure! Who wants to be friends with you, anyway?"After the argument, the two went on to look for their bosses. Ten minutes had passed, and Mike could still not find Avery, so he went looking f

She pursed her lips and strode toward the door. "I don't know if it means investing in Wanda," he drawled when she was at the door, "but I gave Zoe three hundred million.""Three hundred million? He gave Zoe three hundred million?!" she thought. "Wasn't it one hundred and fifty-five million?" she blurted out. He chuckled. "So you have been keeping an eye on what has happened between Zoe and I. I did give her one hundred and fifty-five million, but I gave her another one hundred and fifty-five million the day before yesterday. She had performed surgery on Shea twice, and I'm paying her seventy-five million for each operation she performed."Avery clenched her fists. Due to the surgeries, Zoe had gotten an insane amount of money from Elliot. She had given all three hundred million to Wanda. "How ironic! This is the most ironic thing I've ever seen. Nothing is as ridiculous as this, because I was the one who did those surgeries! This means that I have just given Wanda three hund

"Mommy, the nurse told Hayden to go first because I was scared of the pain. She wanted me to see that there was nothing to it," explained Layla. "Hayden only had his blood taken for my sake. He loves me!"Avery sighed at the explanation and said, "You are both so adorable and good. Mommy loves you more and more as the days go by!""Mom, we love you too!" Layla's doe-like eyes were filled with joy. Their bodyguard stood on the side and scratched his head. "Miss Tate, should I cook?""Wouldn't that be too much trouble?"The bodyguard shook his head. "It is no problem." With that, he went into the kitchen. "Mommy, that uncle cooks really well! He is making buffalo wings for us tonight." Layla grabbed Avery's hand and mumbled, "Why didn't Uncle Mike come home with you?"Avery's brows twitched, and she said, "He is busy with something, so we didn't come home together."Elliot had turned off her phone, and Mike must have gotten extremely nervous when he could not find her. She