When Avery glanced at her phone, her heart skipped a beat. Then, she answered the call.

"Avery!" Elliot's roar rang through the phone.

Avery was taken aback, then asked, "What's wrong?"

"You're alright?" He sounded surprised to hear her voice. "You're alright, Avery!"

"I'm fine. Were you hoping something happened to me?" Avery teased. "Who told you I wasn't alright?"

"Someone saw you at a restaurant and said you were in trouble." Elliot's voice returned to its usual calm. "It's a good thing it wasn't you."

"Oh. If that's the case, the woman must look a lot like me… Could she have been Nora?" Avery had deliberately said this.

Elliot was not interested in this at all. "I don't care who it was, as long as it wasn't you."

Avery hummed in response.

"Where are you right now?" Elliot asked after two seconds of silence.

"I'm eating with Tammy."

"Did you bring your bodyguard?" he asked.

"I did," Avery said as she glanced at the bodyguard standing nearby.

"Go home once you're done