"You don't know the answer," laughed Avery. "So you still don't remember me. I'm still glad, though, that your attitude towards me has improved so much even if you don't remember me. If I continue to stay here, you will fall in love with me once again."
"Avery, is this the right time to talk about this?"
"What else should we talk about? About you and Ruby Gould?" Avery was on the verge of a mental breakdown. "She is so obedient to you that I feel like her love for you rivals my love.
"Are you enjoying this? You are out having fun, and you are able to keep your family at the same time," she said sarcastically. "If this carries on, sometime soon... I will give up."
Elliot tightened his fingers around the phone.
"I will wait until the end of this month, at most. If you insist on remaining in Ylore, I will give up. You won't have to fight for over custody of the children, since your wife is very young. I'm sure she will be willing to bear you a dozen children," she said, giving him her ultimatum.
Elliot ignored her sarcasm. "Avery, are you saying that you won't leave until the end of this month?"
"The end of the month isn't that far away." Her blood ran cold because she could sense from his tone that he would not leave Ylore with her even if she waited until the end of the month. He had made himself clear the entire time and had told her that he would not leave Ylore anytime soon. At the very least, he would not leave with her unless he recovered his memories.
In the end, neither of them remembered who had hung up first.
Avery tossed and turned in her bed when suddenly her lower abdomen felt heavy.
She pulled up the calendar on her phone and checked the date. She realized that she was a week late.
"What you are used to is in the past. The present is different. You were younger, you had a better immune system,
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