NovelEnglishHayden stared at Ben until he walked towards Elliot and tapped Elliot on the shoulder.
"A word, Elliot," Ben whispered into Elliot's ear.
Elliot was focused on taking photos of Layla and ignored Ben.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtBen searched around and finally went to pull Hayden over from the bench. "Take photos for your sister. | have something that | need to discuss with your dad," he said to Hayden before dragging him to where Elliot was standing and pulled Elliot away.
"What is it? Is it the end of the world or something? It's not every day that my daughter letstake photos of her..." Elliot scowled in annoyance. If Ben couldn't cup with something important to say, Elliot was not going to spare him.
Ben unlocked his phone and shoved it towards Elliot. "Ruby Gould somehow got her hands on my phone number. The baby is born." Ruby knew that Elliot wouldn't talk to her, so she found Ben's number and sent the photo of her baby to Ben instead.
Elliot scowled as his expression darkened, which only grew even darker once he had a look at the photo.
"Do you realize that this baby looks like Layla?" Ben gasped. "If Ruby isn't the one holding the baby, | would have thought that this is a photo of when Layla was still a baby." Elliot studied the photo for a few seconds before turning his attention to the words below the photo.
[Ben, | am Ruby Gould. My daughter with Elliot is born and | want you to show Elliot this photo ] "Why are you showingthis?" Elliot gritted out, "do you wantto go find her, or are you trying to destroy my relationship with Avery?!" Ben took his phone back and flushed. "This is your daughter, do you really intend on not looking at her for the rest of your life? I'm just showing you her photo, not asking you to go to Ylore and see her. Why are you all worked up?" "lI don't have any room left for mistakes," Elliot explained, "if Avery finds out that | saw this child, she's going to divorce me!" "I'm not showing this to you in front of her! | won't tell her about this as well!" Ben felt like he was not trusted. "I'm just showing you the photo. You can't even look at a photo? This baby looks like Layla!" Elliot clenched his fists; he wanted to look at the photo, but desperately tried to suppress his curiosity.
In the distance, Hayden glanced at them with the corner of his eyes. He wasn't sure what had happened but it seemed as though they were arguing.
Another message cin through Ben's phone >e*=VIW? it was from Ruby again.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm[Ben, | wanted to take the baby to see Elliot, but | don’t think that's possible for now. The baby cdown with pneumonia after birth. She's been under treatment for a week and has finally recovered, so | don't want her to travel that far.] "Damn! That poor baby. She got pneumonia right after birth," Ben exclaimed after reading the message.
Elliot started feeling sympathetic towards the child.
"Elliot, Ruby is asking for your help to nthe baby. Do you want to do it?" Ben asked.
"No," Elliot refused right away.
"You are merciless!" Ben glared at him. "I will cup with a nif you don't want to. Ruby has just given birth and she could easily develop postpartum depression. If that happens, your child is going to suffer the most.” "If you like that kid so much, you should go look after her, then!" Elliot gritted out angrily.
Ben punched him in the chest. "You are such a jerk!" Elliot shoved his hand away and clenched his fists, before turning to leave.
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