When His Eyes Opened

Chapter 788

 ‘Why is he here all of a sudden? I‘ve already returned the box to him!‘ Layla thought. 

Scared that he was here looking for trouble, she immediately ran out of the living room and shouted, “Uncle Mike!” 

Layla’s scream had frightened Avery.

When Layla dropped the phone to the ground, the camera was faced at the ceiling of the living room so Avery could only attempt to guess what had happened from the noises as she couldn‘t see anything at all. 

One thing that she could be certain of was that Layla was in a dangerous situation. 

“Layla!” Avery grabbed onto her phone tightly and stepped out of her room. 

Her heart sank; though she was in Bridgedale at the moment, if something was about to happen to her daughter, Avery would not hesitate to travel back to Aryadelle right away. 

had met with Layla plenty of times and though she had never been polite with him before, she had never acted so frightened either. He raised his hand to touch his own face and confirmed that there was nothing on his face; what was Layla so scared of? He stepped into the living room and spotted the

Layla‘s scream, Avery was still calling out to Layla.

looked at the screen and explained, “I startled her. She

and tension

she that scared of you?” Avery

he was wondering the same thing as

this late at night?” Avery continued to ask when he did not

and felt a lump in his throat when he was reminded of the reason why she had taken Robert with her and left.

happened to drive past this place and decided to drop

my house.” Avery exposed him

walked into the living room with Layla in his

but Layla had only shook her

in,” he explained, “I parked the car outside the yard so she didn‘t expect someone to walk