Layla shook her head. "No! Dad never toldto bring my brother to find you. My brother didn't want to cwithto visit you.
My brother is a little shy."
After receiving Layla’s answer, Avery had mixed feelings.
Before returning to Aryadelle, she always thought it was Elliot who prevented Robert from coming to Bridgedale to find her, but she
didn't expect the main reason to be Robert.
"Mom, although Dad is very annoying, he listens tooften." Layla didn’t mean to speak for her Dad, but the meaning of her
words was evident.
Avery knew that Elliot was very fond of children.
No matter how their relationship changed, the child was his. How could he not love the child?
"Layla, since you don't hate your father so much, why did you say that in front of him just now?" Avery remembered the sadness
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"I just wanted to piss him off." Layla frowned and breathed, "Mom, maybe my rebellious teenage years are here."
"Layla, don’t make him angry!" Avery said.
"Why? Are you afraid he will be bad to my brother and me?"
"No." Avery blushed slightly, "Your father is quite old... It would be bad if he gets angry."
Layla was stunned.
In Layla's mind, Dad had always been the same. He stood tall and straight, as majestic as a mountain. Layla would never have
thought about Dad's age if Mom hadn't reminded her that dad was quite old.
She knew that people would grow old but never thought that her parents would grow old.
"Honey, what's the matter?" Avery immediately comforted her when she saw her daughter's sudden depression, "Did what | say
scare you?"
Layla's eyes were slightly red. "Mom, | don't want you to grow old.”
"Everyone gets old." Avery led her daughter into the hotel room.
Layla and Eric lived in the presidential suite because she feared living alone.
"You will stay with Layla, and I'll book another room, ” Eric said after sending them into the room.
"Eric, did Layla have dinner tonight?"
"No. I'll order now >c$=PMR: have it delivered."
"Okay, I'll take her to have a bath first." Avery led Layla into the bedroom.
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After the room door was closed, Avery went to find her pajamas.
Layla followed behind her. "Mom, is it impossible for you and my dad to be together again?"
Avery tightened her fingers on the clothes. "Do you wantto be with your father again?"
"I thought about it a little, but I didn't think much... | want to go back to how it was before you divorced. We lived together as a
family. How happy we were!" Layla always reminisced about her happy life back when they hadn't divorced. "I know that's my
wishful thinking. You've both been divorced for so long; | hope you find a better man than daddy..."
"Layla, mom has a lot of things to do. Finding a man is not on my schedule." Avery put her pajamas on the bed and then took her
daughter to remove her makeup.
"I know, | know! Uncle Eric said that no one is worthy of you. I'm afraid you might get lonely sometimes.” Layla sat obediently in
front of the dressing mirror and asked her mother to remove her makeup.
Avery wiped off the makeup on her daughter's face slowly.
Seeing her daughter without makeup, she couldn't help thinking of Ivy.