“You know I’m not trying to sow discord.” After drinking the soup, Elyette put the soup bowl on the coffee table and looked at Hayden calmly, “I don’t want you to hate me either. But I know I can’t change your mind. I can only tell you, I never thought of deliberately cause you trouble. On the contrary, I am most afraid of causing trouble for you, so I will make such a choice.”
“Only a coward would choose to use death to escape trouble!” Hayden said. He looked down on his behavior.
“You’re right. I’m not as good as you.” Elyette was willing to show weakness to his son, “I accidentally learned that Travis planned to use me to blackmail your mother into marrying his son Emilio. I can’t watch your mother marry someone else. And this makes me more uncomfortable than killing me. Hayden, if you were me, what would you do?”
Elyette asked this deliberately, not only to know how his son behaved, but also to shorten the distance with his son.
“I will make those who threaten me pay a heavy price. If I die, I will let them be buried with me!” Hayden gave this answer without hesitation.
Elyette looked at him with a look of relief: “Even if I’m gone in the future, I don’t have to worry about your mother and your siblings being bullied. Hayden, I’m relieved to have you take care of them.”
Elyette’s eyes were very gentle, and his tone was doting.
Hayden’s face turned red.
“I think you’re old. You’re going to commit suicide because of that old thing. It’s stupid!” Hayden scolded him a little lower.
Elyette: “As people grow older, their temper does change. When I first met your mother, your mother suffered a lot of grievances with me. Of course, I was also very aggrieved at that time and I like your mother very much.”
Hayden didn’t know much about their past.
So he suddenly heard Elyette talk about it, he thought it was very interesting, and he didn’t interrupt.
When Averie came back, the living room was peaceful.
The nanny walked up to her with a smile and whispered to Averie, “the two of them didn’t quarrel. Mr. Foster followed Hayden in everything and didn’t give Hayden a chance to get angry at all.”
Averie breathed out silently.
“Boss, should I go buy chestnuts?” Ali asked behind her.
“Okay.” Averie responded, walked to Hayden and sat down, “Hayden, let mother see your face.”
“It’s all right.” Hayden didn’t want his mother to see the scars on his face.
Averie grabbed his hand and held it in her own. After thinking for a moment, she said, “Hayden, we can’t look at your father in the eyes of normal people now. When people are sick, their minds are very fragile. Your father’s condition is like a terminally ill person. His condition is worse than that of ordinary patients. So I have always been cautious, fearing that he will be stimulated.”
“It turns out that every time I was cautious, I was reminding him that he was not the Elyette he used to be…” Averie added, “We’ll just treat him as a normal person in the future.”
Elyette got up from the sofa with an embarrassed look: “Let’s go eat!”
“Mom, I just drank the soup, and I don’t want to eat it now. Go eat it!” Hayden took his hand out of his mother’s palm and walked outside.
“Hayden, it’s cold outside, you have to wear a coat!” Averie was worried and went to his room to get him a coat.
Hayden stood at the door of the villa, leaning on his side, waiting for his mother to bring his coat.
Elyette stood in the living room, also turned his body sideways, his eyes fell on Hayden.
Out of the corner of Hayden’s eyes, he saw that his father was looking at him, and he was very uncomfortable, so he lowered his head, raised his foot and kicked the stone that did not exist under his feet.
Not long after, Averie came out with Hayden’s coat and put it on Hayden.
“Put the mask on.” Averie took a mask out of the shoe cabinet and handed it to him, “Don’t go far, come back for dinner after a walk.”
Hayden put on the mask and walked out.
Averie watched Hayden walk away, and then walked towards Elyette.
Averie: “What did you talk about with Hayden?”
Elyette: “We talked about our past. I don’t know if we didn’t talk, but after chatting, I realized that so many years have passed.”
Averie: “Does he like to hear those things?”
“Didn’t you know? Have you told him about our past?” Elyette asked, “Hayden listened very carefully.”
“What is there to talk about in the past?” Averie cheeks were hot, and she thought about their past, and her face became even hotter. “Don’t you feel ashamed to tell your child this?”
“What is there to be ashamed of! At his age, he has already reached the age of first love. Maybe some day a little girl will lead him by the nose.” Elyette said what he was seeing everything, “My son is like me, and the person who can control him in the future must be a girl with a sweet personality.”
“Are you complimenting me indirectly?” Averie raised her eyebrows.
“It used to be sweet.” Elyette seemed to be reminiscing, and after recalling, he concluded, “You are more domineering now.”
Averie’s smile suddenly solidified.
“I also like your domineering.” Elyette added, “I used to think that I should protect you and our children, and I think it’s my duty. But now I can’t protect you, and I want you to protect me, causing me that it was difficult to accept mentally, so I was depressed for a while.”
“Then have you figured it out now?” Averie could feel a lot of relaxation from his light tone.
“Hayden taught me a lesson today.” He shrugged, “I feel like I might be really old.”
“Don’t think like that. Everyone gets old. When people get old, they are like old worn-out machines. It is inevitable that there will be a shaft.” Averie said and picked up the chopsticks and gave him a piece of beef, “Eat and drink well, I hope there will always be.”
“You went to see those experts today, do you think they are reliable?” Elyette expressed doubts about the person Mike found.
Averie put a chopstick of green vegetables in her mouth and chewed it slowly: “I don’t know enough about it yet, so I don’t dare to make comments. But that Ivory Pepin is still very famous. I never thought he would come to help me.”
“He was attracted by the resurrection technique!” Elyette guessed.
“Yes. Like me, Ivory doesn’t believe in such a miraculous operation at all. It’s too sensational to bring people back to life.” Averie said and she changed the conversation, “Maybe our thinking has been solidified, so it is difficult to accept beyond things within the scope of her own knowledge.”
Speaking of which, Averie asked, “What about you? Did you go to the Tate Industries today? Have you met Norah?”
“Yes.” Elyette looked relaxed, “Averie, The Tate Industries is yours. It will always be yours. I won’t rob you of anything.”
Averie: “I know. I doubted you before, but then I chose to trust my own judgment.”
“When you have free time, transfer the company back to your name.” Elyette discussed with her, “Or Tomorrow!”
“So anxious?” Averie glanced at him, “I don’t think you need to transfer it to me. It’s fine under your name. You must have made a private will, right? When you made your will, give the Tate Industries to Layla. Just pull it.”
Elyette: “Okay.”
The hospital.
Norah came to Travis’s ward to visit him.
“Dad, how are you feeling today?” Norah put the flowers on the table.
“What are you doing here?” Travis asked. His face was sullen.
“My mother asked me to come and see you.” Norah calmly replied, “Also, I have good news for you.”
Travis’s eyes suddenly lit up: “What good news? You found Emmy? Finding Emmy is good news!”
“I don’t have any news about Emmy. I’m sorry.” Norah lowered her head in shame.
“Hehe, I knew you were useless! Even Emilio didn’t find Emmy, how could you find Emmy?” Travis glared at her contemptuously, “Tell me, what do you want to tell me?”
“Dad, do you still want the Tate Industries?” Norah asked seriously, “Today, with the attitude of giving it a try, I chatted with the top management of Sterling Group to achieve the goal ahead of schedule and whether I can immediately fulfill the promises in the gambling contract, the other side said yes. He didn’t even say to ask Elyette… So I asked him for a share transfer contract after the performance of the agreement.”
Norah opened the bag and took the contract from the inside and took it out and handed it to Travis.
“I have read the contract, and it matches the terms in the gambling agreement.” Norah said.
Travis gave the nanny a look, and the nanny immediately raised the head of his hospital bed.
“Dad, it’s actually the equivalent of spending your money to buy shares in the Tate Industries.” Norah explained, “I personally think that the Tate Industries is a company with great potential. You will never lose money if you buy it.”
“How much does it cost?” Travis put on his glasses and asked while looking at the contract.
Norah: “$14 billion.”
Travis frowned suddenly: “Norah, you really think I should spend so much money to buy shares of the Tate Industries?”
“Dad, if you give this opportunity to others, someone will be willing to pay the money.” Norah argued, “Now Elyette is busy with his life, and Averie is busy looking for experts to study his disease, the two of them have no time to manage the Tate Industries, so there is a loophole to take advantage of. If you don’t take this opportunity, what if Averie rescues Elyette? “
Travis couldn’t read the contract when Norah talked about this.
“Norah, are you sure what you said is true?” Travis had been busy with Margaret’s wedding these days and planning a bigger business, so he didn’t pay much attention to Tate Industries.
“I’m sure. If I’m not sure, how would I dare to tell you?” Norah was afraid that Travis would not believe her, so she said, “I have a good personal relationship with the vice president of Sterling Group. As long as Elyette didn’t ask him to target me, he wouldn’t. It’s embarrassing for me. And we are all here according to the gambling agreement I signed with Elyette. Even if Elyette makes trouble in the future, he will not take care of it.”
Travis stared at Norah, and after thinking for a few seconds, he decided to fight.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.