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.

think that he would be interested in her

her thesis

expression and immediately shot up and walked over to the

you?” she said gently as 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

walked into the living room and picked up the book from

the seriousness of her introduction, Elliot forgot to cut her

bored. You can start at any chapter and

really that great? You’re making me want to get one for

for you tomorrow, then,” Avery said with

that’s alright. I’ll just go get it

at all. There was a sale at the bookstore so I got

Cooper’s face froze at Avery’s mention of the price

did not mind that the book was cheap, but

up buying a gift for him that

not already bad enough that she bought him a gift that was on sale, she was openly parading the fact that

sensed that the

then picked up the gift box on the table and said, “This gift box wasn’t

more

the book, it was doubtful that it could

going to get dinner ready for Master Elliot now,” said Mrs. Cooper

around to glance at Elliot’s

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