"Oh... Is he going to visit Uncle Mike during his holidays?" Layla beamed because she had been planning on taking Robert to Bridgedale to visit Hayden. If Chad was traveling to Bridgedale, they could all travel together.
"I didn’t ask him." Elliot got up and took her hand. "Did you have fun at the water park?"
"Robert had more fun. I think it's a bit childish." Layla was wrapped in a towel, and her hair still dripping wet. "Daddy, I will go shower now. Go check on Uncle Chad!"
"Sure!" Elliot watched as Layla walked back into her room, before approaching Robert, who was soaking wet.
Robert looked up at Elliot with his doe-like eyes and pouted. "Daddy stinks.”
It was the first time Elliot had drank so much at home since Robert was born.
"You can sleep with Mrs. Cooper tonight, then. Go shower!" Elliot said and Mrs.
Cooper carried Robert into the bathroom.
Elliot returned to the dining room to find Chad rubbing his face.
"Have you sobered up?" Elliot teased. "Your alcohol tolerance is getting lower."
Chad scratched his head. "I'm just too sleepy. I didn't sleep well last night and didn’t get to rest earlier in the afternoon today.”
"I will get my driver to send you home." Elliot called the driver over.
"Mr. Foster, could it be that maybe my tolerance didn't get lower, but yours got higher?" Chad struggled to salvage his pride. "I remember that you used to get drunk with just two glasses-’’
"You wouldn't have collapsed after just three glasses in the past."
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