"You want kids? It's simple. | can take you to an orphanage right now. There are kids at all ages and you can take as many kids as
you want," Avery teased.
Elliot blushed. "I just want kids of my own blood."
"Should we have another child, then?"
"Why bother asking the kids when we can do it?" She chuckled.
"I was just saying that. Let's not have another kid." Elliot had given up on having more children a long tago.
"Don't say what you toldearlier to the kids. Just because you want grandchildren, doesn't mean you should force them into
having kids!" She shot him a glare.
"lI won't say any of the things | said to you." He shrugged. "Layla is dead set on marrying Eric. Eric needs to take Antirejection
medication from now on, right? That means those two are definitely not having kids. As for Hayden, do you think | dare to force
him into marriage?"
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"You dare to do it to Robert." She lifted an eyebrow. "You raised him and he listens to you."
"That depends on if he has a girlfriend. If he has a girlfriend who is a great person, | might urge him to get marry, but he doesn't
even have one right now."
"If you really have that much ton your hands, we can get a cat or a dog," Avery suggested.
"My patience is reserved only for our kids and their kids, so no, thank you." He rejected the idea right away.
"Alright, then."
They two strolled by the river and spotted someone fishing in the distance, so Elliot walked over to chat with the man out of
curiosity.
"lI don't think you can fish in this river, right?"
"No one cares," the man said.
"why not?"
"It's too cold. They don't bother themselves with what | do."
"You are someone important?"
"No." The man pointed at his head. "My brain is failing and my family won't letwander off. On my better days, | wouldn't fish
here even if someone hireto do it here! It's hard to fish in weather like this. Even if | catch something, | will let it go."
Elliot studied the man, who looked to be in his fifties but had eyes that made him look much older. He wanted to ask the man what
his condition was, but Avery tugged at him and said, "let's go!"
Elliot left with Avery and asked, "why won't you lettalk to him?"
"You wanted to ask what's wrong with him, right? You will know once you get sick. It's a harsh topic to discuss," Avery explained.
"He seems pretty optimistic about it."
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"I guess I'm just getting old." Avery smiled. "I'm a bit sensitive when ites to the topic of aging and getting sick."
"l can understand."
"So why would you want to ask what's wrong with him?" She looked up and glanced at his hair.
She had dyed his gray hair black once and he seemed to have gotten a haircut after returning to Aryadelle.
"It's black again." She ran her fingers through his hair. "There isn't as much gray hair now."
"I took supplements," he said. "I probably wouldn't have if the hair dye smelled any better."
"Supplements don't make your hair black. You were just betting on the chance that your hair turned gray before of stress, and that
it will turn black again once you are no longer stressed."
"And | was right!" Elliot said smugly.
"Let's go back! It's getting a bit cold." She grabbed his hand and the two started walking back to the hospital.