Avery thought that Elliot was leaving. Instead, he walked to where she was sitting and took a seat next to her.
She barely gave it a thought and moved aside a little.
"What are you doing?" Looking at the familiar face so close to her, she could not read his mind.
"Why did you say that my apology to Layla was not sincere?" His tone was lower than before. "This is when I'm around. When I'm
not around, what do you tell Layla about me?"
"I tell her whatever you suspect | tell her. You really are confident if you think | tell the children only good things about you." Avery
smiled. "If you wantto praise you, sure. Hand over the custody of the children to me, and I'll praise you all you want."
The calmness on his face was no longer there.
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"Avery, you said that no matter what | did, | would find an excuse for myself. Since when have | found excuses for myself? No
matter what | do, | do it with a good conscience."
"Conscience? You want to talk toabout conscience? You dare say you feel no guilt for what you did to me?" Avery said coldly.
"lvy is our daughter. She was in danger back then. Why was | going to look for her so wrong? You told everyone that you had
problems with your sight, but | didn’t know about it. Avery, | believe that you won't hold a grudge againstfor no reason, so |
went and got a recording of our
conversation."
Avery looked at him in the eyes, wanting to see if he had a guilty conscience or not.
"I have the recording on my phone. Do you want to hear it?" He took the phone out. " This was the last phone call we had before
our divorce. | really didn’t know that you had problems with your eyes, and | was very angry at you for asking for a divorce."
"I have listened to it," Avery glanced at his phone. "Elliot, are you sure the recording doesn’t have any problems?"
"I got the telecommunication company people to retrieve it. It was is exactly what | said to you." He held his phone tightly. " Back
then, while we were speaking, there ca point when | could no longer hear you. The recording proves that you spoke only two
lines 7g!:PIV< nothing more." "Are you sure?" Avery creased her brows." Are you sure you didn't hear what | said back then? Are
you sure the recording is real?"
"If | lied to you, and if the recording is fake, I'll die on the spot whenever you curseto death!" He swore to her.
Seeing the determination in his gaze, Avery's heart was beating wildly.
Was he telling the truth? He did not look like he was lying.
"Avery, do you loatheso much because you toldover the phone that your eyes were having problems?" Elliot had thought
about it countless times. The reason that their relationship deteriorated was most likely because of this. "I don't know whether your
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmphone has problems, or it was my phone, but | really didn't hear what you said." "I heard the recording. In the recording, it was only
your voice, my voice couldn't be heard." Avery gasped. "If it was a phone problem, then it must have been my phone's problem."
Seeing how this misunderstanding was finally resolved, Elliot's heart felt as if he had been stabbed multiple times.
Thinking back to how she had called him, telling him that she could not see, and how he had left her caused him to reflect on how
helpless and heartbroken she must have felt.
"But... my phone is fine!" She picked her phone up and said sufferingly, "I have been using this phone since before. I'm still
using it! For the past two years, this phone has had no problems."
Avery said that to prove that her phone most likely had no problems back then.
If Elliot truly had not heard her back then, then that left only two possibilities: He was lying or there must be sother
explanation to be found.