"Avery, I'm sorry that I went back on my word, but I need to go to Ylore right now." Elliot told her his decision and his reason, "Ruby is dead. Our child is gone. I need to go and have a look."

It was a huge blow to Avery! She had not expected him to give her such an answer. She had told him that she was going blind, and he just told her that he was sorry and that he needed to go look for Ruby and his child.

This was the first time he had referred to the child as their child. He had officially acknowledged that Ivy was his child with Ruby.

Avery found the entire thing to be extremely ironic. She had suspected that the child could be hers before her eyes had begun to fail her. She had wanted to wait for Shea's child to be born before she headed to Ylore and conduct a DNA test on the child.

How comical! How absurd!

Although Ivy looked a lot like Layla, she was still the child that Elliot had conceived with Ruby! He said it himself!

Her hand that was gripping her phone relaxed a