When His Eyes Opened

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." 

because you are sick and don‘t want him to

her with dark, brooding eyes and answered honestly, "both. Who asked you

of the study room."A cold might not be that big of a deal, but your recovery will be really slow if you don‘t rest. I know that maybe you just want to keep being

the problem," he summarized and guessed at the same time, "you want me to welcome the child with joy like everyone else and

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 a murderer!" Avery instantly lost control of her

of his arm, her chest heaving rapidly. "If Shea was still alive, she definitely wouldn‘t want your relationship with Robert to be so weird because of her!"

expression darkened

fever, Elliot, your temperature can go up at Knight if you

took

of pills? Show me."

was breathing heavily as

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

habit, she glanced at the manufacture date and expiration date. After that, she tossed the box into the

you too

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