Layla said that he made Avery feel aggrieved.
If what Layla said was true, then Avery truly did resent him, despite him not knowing that she had wanted to purchase the set.
She answered the call in a matter of seconds.
"Hello," said Avery in a calm voice.
"A week ago, you cursed me to death, was it because I helped Natalie buy the set of jewelry that you wanted?" Elliot asked. " Layla told me everything just now."
Avery was stunned. She had already told Layla not to tell him. She had not expected Layla to tell him anyways.
"Yes, are you going to laugh at me for being childish?" Avery retorted.
"I'm sorry," he said after hearing her answer. "I didn't know that you wanted the same set of jewelry. Natalie didn’t tell me about it."
"Don’t blame Natalie. She wasn't there that time. She didn't know that I was the one bidding against her assistant."
Elliot wanted to explain to her that Natalie rarely asked him for help, which was why he helped her that time. However, he felt that even if he explained it to Avery, Avery would not want to listen to it.
"Layla is very angry, could you come over?" Elliot used Layla as an excuse. "I want to apologize to her, but she gets angry at me every time she sees me."
Avery felt a little troubled. She did not want
to go to his place, but at the thought of Layla being angry, she wanted to speak to her, too.
At Elliot's mansion, Mrs. Cooper was trying to talk sense into Layla.
"I know that you like your Daddy a little. If you don't like him at all, you could have gone looking for your Mommy or Hayden, but you didn't. For the past two years, you have been staying next to your Daddy. You can see clearly what he is like as a person. He has never gotten together with any other women. Every day, after work, he comes home to spend time with you and Robert. If he divorced your Mommy because he had an affair, how could he treat you and Robert so well? How is it possible that he has never found any women for the past two years?"
Avery pushed the car door open and got out of the car with a cake in her hands.
"Mommy, are you here to celebrate my birthday?" Layla looked at the cake and asked.
"Natalie came over to give you a birthday gift today. Is your Daddy planning to celebrate your birthday?" Avery asked in return.
"He never told me. The moment I came home and saw Natalie, I was furious." Layla held Avery's arm and said softly, "I fought with Daddy."
"Your Daddy called me and told me that you were very angry."
"Oh... he asked you to come over?" Layla immediately thought about what Mrs.
Cooper said, so she asked, "You came over just because he asked you to?"
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