This was not the life that Avery wanted. If Elliot and she were at the stage where they had to pretend to keep their relationship together, she would rather not have this relationship.

If she had brought her children up alone, she would not have had such troubles. She did not want pity from anybody. She did not want to be locked up by the chains of a relationship.

The more she thought, the clearer her mind was, and the more she could not sleep.

After a long time, she seemed to have fallen asleep and even had a dream. Even in her dream, she knew that she was dreaming.

She did not sleep well. Her dream started for only a short while before it morphed into another dream.

She dreamt for a few hours. Then, she was completely awake. She picked her phone up to look at the time. It was almost five in the morning.

She let out a sigh of relief. In a short while, he would soon be up.

At seven-thirty in the morning, the quietness of the mansion was broken. Layla and Hayden had gotten up. Th