Entering the living room, the two confront Layla.
Layla’s eyes looked out, trying to see what was going on outside.
“Norah Jones brought the jewelry.” Averie explained to her daughter, “She’s left.”
“Oh, what does she mean?” Layla looked at the jewelry box in her mother’s hand and said coldly, “I just don’t want her present!”
“Nora intends to sell this set of jewelry to me.” Averie put the jewelry box on the coffee table, then reached out to Elyette and asked for the invoice, “Give me the invoice.”
Elyette glanced at the invoice.
$10 million.
This money is not a small amount.
Elyette: “I’ll give her the money later…”
“Nora sold it to me, not to you.” Averie walked up to him and took the invoice from his hand, “$10 million … She is so proud to spend so much money on gifts for Layla. Does she usually give gifts to Layla, but is it so expensive?”
Elyette shook his head: “No. Last year she gave Layla a dress. I looked at the price. It’s only a few hundred thousand dollars.”
“Hundreds of thousands?! Do you think a few hundred thousand is cheap? You dare to accept such an expensive gift from someone who gave your child for no reason!” Averie glared glanced at him.
Elyette pursed his lips, not knowing what to say.
The gift was received by Layla, not through Elyette’s hands at all.
He took a peek at the price tag after Layla had received the gift.
“Mom, I received the birthday present she gave me last year. The dress she gave me was very beautiful, I didn’t think it was very expensive…” How did Layla know that a dress cost hundreds of thousands.
“It’s okay, just accept it. Your father must have returned the gift.” Averie took a deep breath and returned to her daughter with the receipt, “Layla, look at the jewelry, if you like it, mother will pay the money to Norah Jones.”
Layla opened the box and glanced at it.
When Layla looked at the pictures before, She thought this set of jewelry was very beautiful, but now She sees it with her own eyes and She thinks it is very beautiful, but she doesn’t like it that much.
“Mom, it’s so expensive…I don’t want it.” Layla didn’t want her mother to spend so much for herself, so she glanced at the jewelry and closed the box.
“Baby, it’s fine as long as you like it. Mom can afford it.” Averie reopened the box, “Mom will put it on for you, try it.”
“$10 million! With so much money, you can buy a lot of jewelry…” Layla said, looking at Dad, “Dad, you pay.”
Elyette responded and immediately transferred $10 million to Norah Jones.
“Elyette, I said I can afford it, who do you look down on!” Averie said in a sour tone when she saw that Elyette had paid the bill, “I’ll transfer the money to you later. This is a gift I bought for my daughter, I have to pay for it myself.”
Elyette was stunned: “Didn’t we just make the misunderstanding clear?”
“Have I accepted your explanation?” Averie retorted, “Even if you didn’t lie, it was me who misunderstood you, and we already divorced. Friendss still have to settle accounts, we are not friends, we have nothing to do with each other now.”
Elyette saw her attitude was so strong, and said, “Then give me the money.”
“Well.” Averie take Layla to look in the mirror.
Averie: “Baby, you look so good in this set of jewelry. Money is spent, don’t think it’s expensive, mom can really afford it.”
Layla whispered: “But you don’t have a job now, if I spend all your money What should you do?”
“Mom will do what she can.” Averie said, glanced outside the bathroom door, and lowered her voice, “Mom has money, don’t tell your dad. Because it’s mom’s secret…”
Layla opened her mouth in an ‘O’ shape, looking surprised: “Okay mom, I won’t tell him.”
Averie: “Well. Tell mom now, do you like this set of jewelry?”
“Yes.” A happy smile finally bloomed on Layla’s face. “But Mom, Dad just said that you made the misunderstanding clear with you. Did you really make it clear? Did you blame Dad?”
“Your father made it clear, but I don’t know if what he said is true. If I accept what he said, I can’t explain it myself. I don’t want to blindly listen to him, but I don’t hate him as much as I used to. It’s over.” Averie didn’t want to let the grievance between himself and Elyette affect the child, “Layla, if you think he is a good father, then you shouldn’t hate him because of your mother.”
“Look at his performance!” Layla said, “I think he wants to chase you again.”
“Layla, how did you see it? Why didn’t mom see it?” Averie really didn’t see it. After all, after she came over, what she said to Elyette was serious business.
Layla said firmly: “He always stares at you. If he doesn’t like you, why is he staring at you? When Aunt Norah Jones came to our house, he didn’t stare at Aunt Norah Jones very much.”
“Layla, you can’t just look at whether you like someone or not. I was confronting him just now, and of course I will look at him.” Averie said, “I looked at him just now, do you want to say that I like him too?”
“Oh… Mom, don’t you like him at all?” Layla was a little puzzled, “My dad is still handsome, right?”
Averie couldn’t help laughing: “It’s okay! But sometimes there are no feelings, it has nothing to do with looks. If two people quarrel frequently, no matter how good-looking the other person is, they will only get bored.”
Layla: “But you two didn’t quarrel just now.”
“I can’t quarrel with him anymore.” Averie said, ” All the chips he thought he could threaten me were ineffective.”
“Mom, do you really want to teach him a lesson?” Layla looked at her mother and asked, “If there is anything I can do to help, just tell me. I’m definitely on your side!”
“Layla, your father and mother are adults. Even if I want to teach Elyette a lesson, I will teach him a lesson myself, and I definitely don’t need your help.” Averie said, taking her daughter from the bathroom come out.
Elyette knew that the two of them were whispering inside, but he didn’t hear what they said.
After Layla came out of the bathroom, she went to the kitchen to show her jewelry to Mrs. Cooper.
Averie walked towards the living room and wanted to transfer the money to him.
“Why did you buy such an expensive birthday present for your daughter?” Elyette asked her after giving her the card number, “It was an auction. If Norah Jones had bid with you at the time, what was your reserve price?”
In his impression, Averie’s spending money is definitely not like this.
Not only does she not spend money herself, but she also doesn’t like his spending money like running water.
But now, it’s just a birthday present, and Averie dares to spend tens of millions.
“People can change.” After Averie handed the money to him, she replied, “When I first met you, I was a girl who was not deep in the world. Elyette, don’t look at me now with the eyes of the past.”
“You are now?” Elyette looked at her as familiar with facial features as before, and found it hard to accept her change. “What are you like now?”
“That’s what you see now.” Averie didn’t want to continue with him look at each other. She always feels that his eyes are like an abyss, and if he continues to look at it, She’s afraid it will be bad.
Averie took an apple from the fruit bowl and took a bite.
“Didn’t you wash it?” Elyette took out a fruit knife from under the cabinet and handed it to her.
Averie embarrassedly swallowed the apple in her mouth, and then began to peel it: “you went to see Hayden, how was it?”
Elyette: “Did you not ask Hayden?”
Averie: “He didn’t say it, I didn’t ask.”
Elyette: “He has grown a lot taller and looks like an adult. But his temper is still the same…”
Averie felt that she couldn’t say anything good, so she turned her head to look at him.
Elyette stopped immediately and changed his words: “He still hates me as always. But he is good to Robert. He bought Robert a gift. He is also willing to talk to Robert.”
“Of course, Robert is his younger brother. He has no grudge against Robert.” Averie continued to peel.
“Do I have a grudge against him? Layla can forgive me, why can’t Hayden?” Elyette was willing to hold both Layla and Hayden in the palm of his hand. But Hayden didn’t give him the slightest chance.
“Do you think that I must have spoken ill of you in front of Hayden?” Averie teased.
“No. No matter if you speak ill of me in front of Hayden, Hayden hates me.” Elyette’s heart was like a mirror, “When we didn’t divorce before, you couldn’t make your son forgive me. He has himself and my thoughts are not affected by the outside world.”
“You are wrong. Hayden can’t naturally hate you because you make me sad again and again, and he thinks you are unreliable.” Averie corrected him, “but you don’t have to be sad, after all Robert likes you so much, so you should be content.”
Elyette: “You can really comfort people. Hayden is my son after all, how could I not care about him at all? I gave him a card. He accepted it. But I checked and he didn’t spend the money for the time being.”
Averie: “…”
Elyette saw her stop and asked, “What’s the matter?”
“Why did you give him money? He is with you. Are you saying he is short of money?” Averie felt that Hayden must be angry.
“Chad told me that he has a lot of expenses. I’m afraid he’s out of money, so I’m too embarrassed to ask you for it.” Elyette expressed his thoughts, “What’s your expression? Do you blame me? I’ll pay you alimony, don’t you? Hayden is my son, and I should give him the money.”
“I’m really touched.” Averie put down the fruit knife and took a bite of the apple, “You are such a good father. Layla said in the bathroom just now that you are a good father. “
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