Avery felt that Hayden was deliberately refusing to negotiate with her.The more she thought about it, the more restless she became. Eventually, she called Elliot because her sadness was too much to bear."Elliot, Hayden has decided to study abroad. He's leaving me."Elliot's breathing became heavier. "Is there anything I can do?""No. Don't do anything, because you can't," she felt choked. "He's made up his mind. Mike said he'd be leaving the day after tomorrow at the latest. He doesn't want to be in this house anymore.""Let him go if that's what he wants," Elliot said helplessly. "Don't cry. Just don't treat him like he's a child.""I can't help but treat him as a child, Elliot. I always feel like I'm going to lose him.""You won't. He's your son and you'll never lose him," Elliot comforted her patiently. "He just doesn't want to face me. He still loves you. You can always visit him frequently in the future."Her mood calmed down gradually as she listened to his deep voice.

Avery gave Elliot a quick peck on his thin lips and pushed him away. "You have a call! I'll change into something else and put the wedding dress away."He took out his cell phone from his pocket and answered it when he saw the incoming call."Mr. Foster, Henry brought Adrian to do a DNA test," Elliot's subordinate said. "I think he has ulterior motives for doing this. He knows that Adrian is his younger brother and he's already taken him away from you, so there really isn't any reason for him to do the test."Elliot glanced at Avery.She was looking in the mirror while unfastening the strings of the dress on her back."Keep an eye on them and report everything to me at the first instance," he said before ending the call."Who was it?" Avery asked after seeing that he had hung up the phone."Henry brought Adrian to do a DNA test. And since you were worried about Adrian, I had my men keep my eyes on them." He strode behind her and helped her untie the strings."Oh. Did Henry ask

"Of course, I can! But this has nothing to do with whether or not I wish you well. It's up to the both of you to keep things loving and happy! I wasn't the one who wished for your constant bickering in the past now, was I?" laughed Mike. "You don't have to worry about Hayden. He's pretty much settled down over there now.""Did he say anything to you in secret?" Avery asked.Mike chuckled softly and looked as if he had heard a good joke. "Do you think your son is the type of person to reveal his secrets to others? He barely says two sentences to you, and you are his mother. He doesn't speak to others at all, okay? The first night he was at the new school, the teacher actually asked me if he had a speaking disability."Avery was shocked. "Didn't you say he was settled down?!""He is! I asked his teacher about it, and she said that she and the other students are used to him now. She guaranteed that he won't get bullied. Doesn't that count as him being settled down?" Mike let out a hea

"Listen, Elliot. Even if you spout all those wild exaggerations about me out there, I would never become someone like that." Avery lay down on the bed, then said, "At the very least, I'm never knitting a sweater again.""They don't know you. I just wanted them to know that you didn't climb any ladders to get to me." Elliot wrote down all of his passwords on the piece of paper, then handed it over to her. "For your perusal, Honey."Avery accepted his reasoning.She picked up the piece of paper, went through it in detail, then noticed something that stood out."Is the 'AT' at the beginning of your social media password my initials?""That's right. The pin to my credit card is Layla's birthday," he said. "The two of you are the most important women in my life."Avery's cheeks flushed. Then, she asked, "Are your sons not important?""Not relatively as important." Elliot sat by the bed, then added, "You and Layla are much more thoughtful. Our sons just get angry at me all the time."

Soon after, the bodyguard that was sent to search for Cole returned."Sir, I've looked around a few shops in the area but didn't find Cole Foster.""Leave it," Elliot said."Yes, Sir. I'll get the team to guard the resort's entrance. I guarantee we won't allow anyone insignificant to enter.""Good."When Avery stepped out of the shower of the resort villa and saw Tammy holding Robert, she felt slightly bewildered."Did you bring Robert back?""That's right! Someone was smoking out there, so Elliot asked me to bring Robert back to you when he saw me," Tammy said. "I'm guessing that the man who was smoking couldn't stand Elliot any longer! Do you know what Elliot was doing the whole time he was holding Robert out there? He was praising Robert to the moon. It was as if he would never run out of words to describe how amazing Robert is."Avery held back her laughter."Have you noticed that Elliot's been in unusually high spirits the past couple of days? Didn't he sing your praises