Avery sent him a photo. [Your dad can no longer controland Elliot.]
Sebastian opened the photo and instantly realized what it was. [How's Elliot?]
[He's alive.]
[So this whole thing was a lie?]
[Yeah.]
[I knew it, and | think deep down, my dad knew it as well. He just wants to make money through his technology, and he does not want the truth to get
out]
[I know. | won't let him make money out of this.]
[Do as you please. | don't care.]
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Avery had only texted him to keep him posted and didn't care what he intend to do in the future.
Neither of them owed the other one anymore.
Avery stepped out of the bathroom and Layla was already asleep. She walked to the bed and touched Layla on the forehead. Her daughter seemed
to have grown up to be a young woman without her noticing it.
Avery wished that she could just hit the pause button so that she could have more twith her children.
It would be daylight soon, and Mrs. Cooper woke Layla up for school.
Layla leaped from bed after rubbing her eyes and hastily went to wash up, before changing into her uniform.
Avery followed her and helped comb her hair once she had changed.
"Mommy, go wake Hayden up. He promised that he will sendoff to school today," Layla pleaded. "He's definitely still asleep! He has to sendto
school first."
"Layla, do you really have the heart to wake your brother up?" Avery chuckled.
"Of course. He can go back to sleep once he sendsoff to school!" Layla snatched the comb from Avery's hand. "Mommy, hurry up and wake him!"
Avery headed out and arrived at Hayden's room, only to realize that he was already awake and had made his bed.
"Hayden, Layla said you promised to send her off to school today."
"Yeah. I'm good to go." Hayden had just washed up. He put on his watch to check the tand realized that there was still plenty of tleft.
"You can send her off to school, and | will go to the hospital,” Avery said. "Hayden, why don't you go to the hospital to see your dad?"
"He hasn't woken up, has he? I'll go when he wakes up!" Hayden was not against visiting Elliot, but he didn't think it was appropriate to see Elliot
when he was still in the ICU.
"Sure." Avery was just testing her son and felt relieved by his answer.
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After seeing Hayden and Layla off, Avery sent Robert to kindergarten.
"Mommy, can you not leave again?" Robert asked earnestly.
"Well... Even if | need to, | promise that | won't be gone for long, okay?"
He pouted and sighed. "Layla was the one who tookto sports day last time! I'm not her baby! I'm your baby!"
Tears welled up in Avery's eyes as she studied her son's face with an odd mixture of bitterness and amusement.
"| don't even know where Daddy went!" Robert complained.
"Robert, your daddy is sick, so he's in the hospital. He will chonce he gets better."
"Oh... | see! | shouldn't be mad at him, then, should 1?" Robert asked.
"Yeah! You shouldn't."
"Mommy, are you sick as well?"