"Oh, are you heartbroken?" Nick smiled thuggishly. "What is a light beating to a man like Elliot? He would not have minded being stabbed or shot."

Avery furrowed her brows. "Nick, Elliot is not like the rest of you men. When he was in Aryadelle—"

Nick interrupted her. "We're in Ylore. Don't bring up the past, including his affairs in Aryadelle. That is the past."

Avery's scrunched her brows. "He will return to Aryadelle. He said that he will return once he settles things here."

"When did he tell you that?"

"A few days ago."

"He told you that before Christopher died, right?" Nick sneered. "The night Christopher died, he promised Gary that he would never leave Ylore."

Avery instantly paled. She looked lost.

"You can't bear it, can you?" Nick was not trying to upset her. It was something she was bound to find out— sooner or later.

Her finding out about it now was better than her finding out about it from Elliot. She had been completely caught off guard.

"There will be many mor