Before the truth could be confirmed, Hayden knew that he needed to investigate the hotel where Layla had her wedding.
He called the diver over, and as the car drove off, Elliot and Avery turned to look at one another in confusion.
"Hayden has just come home and hasn't even gotten to rest, so where is he going?" Elliot asked curiously.
"I don't know. It looks like there's something on his mind," Avery said.
"I can tell. He stopped talking altogether when I said that the baby could be his or Robert's," Elliot said suspiciously.
"Do you think Hayden is the father?" Avery asked. "Do you think that's possible?"
"Why wouldn't it be possible? You even suspected me when I practically spend every single day with you. How often does Hayden come home? Why won't you suspect him instead?" Elliot was still upset that his entire family had suspected him.
Though Avery had allowed him to stay in the master bedroom the night before, the mental damage he suffered remained.
"What do you expect me to do? Hayden is an adult now, so even if he is seeing a woman and ends up getting her pregnant, I can't scold or lecture him! How can you compare yourself to him?" Avery asked and glanced at the door. "I will ask him about it when he gets home."
"I will check on the baby." Elliot was confident that the baby was his grandchild and the disgust he felt toward the baby vanished.
...
In the hotel, Hayden spoke to the manager of the customer service department and told him to find the woman who had offered him the glass of ice water on the night of Layla's wedding.
"Mr. Tate, do you have to find this person? I will need to go through the shift arrangements from ten months ago and even then I might not find her," the manager said. "The turnover rate in this department is exceptionally high because it's a tough job with relatively low pay."
"You haven't even looked into it and you are already saying that you can't find her?" Hayden scowled. "Look into it now!"
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