Chapter 50

Cold sweat dripped down Avery’s back.

Instinctively, she slammed her laptop shut.

She would not have done that if she were working on her thesis.

In her earlier frenzy of wild thoughts, she started a new file and wrote down a plan.

It was a plan to get a divorce within the next three months.

Avery hoped to get a divorce from Elliot before she was seven months pregnant.

That was the only way she could successfully go through her last trimester and peacefully give birth to the twins.

If her plan failed and the divorce did not go through, then the only thing she could do was disappear.

That would be the worst-case scenario.

Avonsville was her home, and she wanted to continue to live and work there. She also hoped that her children could be born and grow up where she did.

Avery’s overly cautious reaction revolted Elliot.

that he would be interested

working on her thesis at all,

sullen expression and immediately shot up and walked over to

she squeezed past him out of the room. “You shouldn’t look down on it. It’s a really good book that highlights all kinds of ways to stay healthy. The author is my mentor’s teacher. He’s a really

as she walked into the living room and picked

her introduction, Elliot forgot to cut her

can start at any chapter and it would

me want to get one for myself, too,” Mrs.

go get one for you tomorrow, then,”

alright. I’ll just go get it myself,” Mrs. Cooper

It was not expensive at all. There was a sale at

Mrs. Cooper’s face froze at Avery’s mention of the

did not mind that the book was cheap, but she felt

Elliot, but ended up buying a gift for him that was

it was not already bad enough that she bought him a gift that was

that the

picked up the gift box on the table and said, “This

It was even more expensive than

more than the book, it

for Master Elliot now,” said Mrs. Cooper as

to glance at Elliot’s

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