NovelEnglish"Ivy, look! It's Daddy!" Ruby carried Ivy out of the crib and turned the camera so that it faced her and Ivy. "lvy, remember what your Daddy looks like! Daddy is a really brilliant man..." Elliot did not hear a word she said and focused on the child in her arms.
Ivy was too young to know anything at all, but it was precisely her innocent face that broke the defenses he had put around his heart.
He had never seen Layla as a baby, but he could distinctly see the resemblance Ivy had with Layla.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"Elliot, our daughter is a wonderful child. She cdown with pneumonia when she was born because she was weak. For about a week, the doctors wouldn't even letvisit her, but they toldthat she was wonderful and that she rarely cries, so she had a speedy recovery." Ruby sobbed. "She's really great... Elliot, | know that you can't cto see her, but can you video callfrom tto tso that Ivy gets to see you?" "No," Elliot rejected her request without a moment of hesitation.
"I know... 1 know... Ben toldthat Avery won't allow you to seeor Ivy. Avery is the one who forced you to..." Ruby's tears fell onto Ivy's cheek. Startled, Ivy immediately looked up at her. "Elliot, | won't force you to do anything. Ben toldnot to go to Aryadelle because | would only be disturbing you and making it more difficult for you. | won't take our child to you.
Don't worry..." Elliot's features froze. "Avery didn’t forceto do anything. All my decisions were the result of serious consideration. Ruby Gould, | don’t have any feelings for you, so there’s no need for us to remain in touch. As for the child, | can raise her if you don't want to." "lI want to raise her! Elliot, how could you say something so cruel?" Ruby whimpered.
"Then don't even think about using her to blackmail me. Doing so will only have the opposite effect," Elliot warned her. "Either you raise her, and | pay child support, or you give her toand stay out of our lives.
"I will raise her myself... | don't need money!" Ruby made a decision immediately. "Elliot, it seems like you are dead set on ab:a’ "I'm not abandoning the child." Elliot corrected her. "I don't want to repeat what | said. You won't get anything from me." He had given everything he had to Avery, and that had not changed. Even if he sympathized with Ivy after seeing her, he would never change his stance toward Ruby because of it.
"So you are really not going to csee me?" Ruby paled and her voice trembled.
"Never." He promised Avery that he would never go back to Ylore, and he intended to keep it.
"If | don’t take our daughter to you, will we never see you again?" she asked. "Will you not even see her on her first birthday, or when she is ten years old, or when she becomes an adult? Will you not even see her when she graduates from university, or when she gets married?" "Yes." Elliot decided to be thoroughly merciless so that Ruby would give up.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"Fine... | get it... | get it now..." Ruby held Ivy close and started bawling.
Startled, Ivy, too, started to cry.
When he saw Ivy crying, Elliot could not contain his anger and roared, "Ruby Gould! Can't you hear your daughter crying?! If you are incapable of taking care of her, hand her to me!" Ruby immediately sobered at his words.
Elliot cared about Ivy. He would not have scolded her over Ivy crying if he did not care.
Ruby hastily wiped away her tears and held Ivy up to comfort her. After Ivy had stopped crying, Ruby turned back to the camera.
Visit our social media platform to read fascinating stories every day and connect with the community!
