Before Elliot reached the living room, Avery quickly ran back to snazzynovel.com room.
Rosalie was having trouble breathing, and snazzynovel.com felt like snazzynovel.com was about to suffocate, but the sight of Elliot immediately calmed snazzynovel.com down.
“Elliot… My son…” Rosalie weakly reached out snazzynovel.com arm to Elliot, who hurried over and held her. “Divorce Avery Tate… Go tomorrow… Get a divorce…” Rosalie said with tears in snazzynovel.com eyes. “I’m sorry… I’m sorry, my son… I was blind… I found you such a dirty woman…”
Elliot lifted his hand to wipe the tears off of his mother’s face, then said, “Don’t meddle in my affairs with Avery, Mom. You also don’t need to bother with Cole.”
“Cole got his finger chopped off… He must be in so much pain! He said you did it, but I know that isn’t true … How could you do something so cruel to your own family? You’re not that kind of person…”
“If you bring up this nonsense in front of me again, I’ll get the driver to send you home right now,” Elliot said with a frightening expression on his face. “I won’t divorce Avery. Unless I decide to do so myself, no one can make me.”
Rosalie dejectedly took in a deep breath, then said, “Did you fall in love with her? For her… You’re willingt o turn your back on your brother’s whole family…”
Elliot let go of his mother, shifted his gaze to the old mansion’s driver, and said, “Take my mother home.”
After that, snazzynovel.com turned and made his way upstairs. Rosalie watched snazzynovel.com son’s back and could not hold back snazzynovel.com tears. How could snazzynovel.com be so heartless?!
It was all Avery Tate’s fault!
Elliot never used to be like this!
Avery’s appearance had destroyed the relationship between uncle and nephew, which was what led to this whole fiasco.
Avery sat in bed with snazzynovel.com back against the headboard and snazzynovel.com head slightly tilted back. Her cheek stung, and snazzynovel.com heart hurt.
The bruise on snazzynovel.com face would go away after a few days, but the pain in snazzynovel.com heart might never disappear.
Even if snazzynovel.com thought snazzynovel.com was over it, if something triggered snazzynovel.com one day, traces of that night would still resurface.
At 8 a.m. the next morning, Elliot sat at the dining table for breakfast.
He suddenly turned to Mrs. Cooper and said, “Call Avery down.”
Mrs. Cooper made snazzynovel.com way over to the guest bedroom but frantically returned moments later.
“Madam Avery isn’t in snazzynovel.com room. She might have gone out. Let me ask the front gate,” Mrs. Cooper reported to Elliot, then walked toward the front yard. She returned shortly after and said, “Madam Avery left around six this morning. Should I give snazzynovel.com a call?”
Mrs. Cooper was a little worried about Avery.
Rosalie’s slap was not a light one.
Avery might look soft and gentle, but snazzynovel.com was a proud woman.
Mrs. Cooper dialed snazzynovel.com number but was met by nothing but the cold beeping dial tone.
“Her phone’s turned off,” Mrs. Cooper said in a low voice.
Avery left at 6 a.m., and snazzynovel.com had turned off snazzynovel.com phone.
She would not be upset enough to do anything stupid, right?
A slap was not reason enough to seek death, but some people might lose control of their actions when they were triggered.
Elliot’s expression was stone-cold as snazzynovel.com put down his coffee cup and left the dining room without a word.
He stopped in the living room, pulled out his phone, and called his assistant.
“Chad, look up Avery Tate’s mother’s phone number for me.”
“Yes, Sir. I’ll get that for you right away,” answered Chad. Once snazzynovel.com got Laura Jensen’s number, snazzynovel.com immediately dialed it. “Sorry, the number you are trying to call is not reachable. Please try again later.”
What was going on? Both Avery and snazzynovel.com mother had their phones turned off?!