"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."
"He doesn't really seem to trust me. He probably thinks that I would tell you if he said anything to me," Chad said gloomily." He wasn't like this before. He used to trust me." "It's okay, you still have me." "I can't depend on you either! You only listen to Avery and wouldn't tell me most of what's happening. Now, I'm hardly on anyone's side!"
"Sigh... It will get better once you get used to it." Mike wanted to console him, but in the end, he decided it was best for Chad to stay strong on his own.
Two days passed in a flash and Ben's parents returned to Aryadelle. Ben went to the airport to pick them up before taking them to the restaurant he had reserved.
He had called Elliot two days ago, asking him to join them for a meal as Lilith's brother and senior. Ben wanted him to meet his parents.
Inside the restaurant, Lilith and Elliot sat by the table.
They were the only ones inside the room and Lilith felt as though she would suffocate from awkwardness.
"I should have gone with Ben to the airport, " she thought.
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