When His Eyes Opened By Simple Silence

Chapter 767

Avery turned around with Robert in her arms and was about to leave, when she heard Elliot coughing

She immediately stopped on her track.

Elliot didn‘t cough all that often and would only do so when he was ill.

She strode to the stairs where Mrs. Scarlet was waiting and handed Robert to her, before turning around to head back into the study room. She strolled towards him and studied his flushed cheeks resulting from the constant coughing.

There was a strong emotion in the air that no one could label, but it felt like something would explode at the softest touch.

"Are you sick?" Avery asked and reached up to touch his forehead to test his temperature.

Elliot took a few steps back.

"It‘s just a cold. I don‘t have a fever."

you are sick and

stared at her with dark, brooding eyes and answered honestly, "both. Who asked you here?

circling around his desk and turning off his laptop. She then took him by the arm and dragged him out of the study room."A cold might not be

the problem," he summarized and guessed at the same time, "you want me

don‘t want to put you on the spot, so I will raise my own child, but you don‘t have to act like you can‘t even look at him, like he is

of his arm, her chest heaving rapidly. "If Shea was still alive, she definitely wouldn‘t want your

Elliot‘s expression darkened

have a mild fever, Elliot, your temperature can go up at

already took

me." She

was breathing heavily as though he was

a type of normal cold medicine; four pills were missing from the

glanced at the manufacture date and expiration

you too old to think

medicine without checking the expiration date. It was sheer luck that all