Avery answered the phone and heard Elliot's low and slightly anxious voice." Avery. Layla and Robert are both crying. Please don't go, okay?"
"What do you take me for? A nanny? " Avery shot back. "If you don't want Layla and Robert to be sad, you can give me custody of them. If you agree, I'll go over right now and pick them up."
Elliot's breathing became heavier on the other side of the phone.
He had a lot of things to say to her, but her attitude made it difficult for him to say them.
"I'm about to board the plane," Avery's heart started to count down the time. "Are you going to give me the children or not?
You can always find some other woman after that and have as many children as you want..."
The more Elliot listened, the angrier he became.
Avery was insulting him to no end, and she did not even need to use any expletives.
His face become ashen, then pale, while his body could not stop shaking at all.
When he was about to hang up, he felt as if his fingers were frozen stiff.
He pressed the red icon several times before managing to end the call.
Avery took a deep breath and adjusted her mood when she heard the call being ended by the person on the other end of the line.
Elliot refused her request, which she interpreted as him calling her to ask if she could go back and live life like normal as if nothing had happened between them.
She did not know whether to call him naive or smart.
"Why don't you let me hold Robert while you get some rest." Chad saw that Elliot was tired >c,
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