Cold sweat dripped down Avery's back.

Instinctively, she slammed her laptop shut.

She would not have done that if she were working on her thesis.

In her earlier frenzy of wild thoughts, she started a new file and wrote down a plan.

It was a plan to get a divorce within the next three months.

Avery hoped to get a divorce from Elliot before she was seven months pregnant.

That was the only way she could successfully go through her last trimester and peacefully give birth to the twins.

If her plan failed and the divorce did not go through, then the only thing she could do was disappear.

That would be the worst-case scenario.

Avonsville was her home, and she wanted to continue to live and work there. She also hoped that her children could be born and grow up where she did.

Avery's overly cautious reaction revolted Elliot.

Did she think that he would be interested in her thesis?

on her thesis

and immediately shot up

out of the room. "You shouldn't look down on it. It's a really good book that highlights all kinds of ways to stay

she walked into the living room and picked up the book from the

Elliot forgot to cut

can start at any chapter and it would still make sense," Avery

me want to

go get one for you tomorrow, then,"

alright. I'll just go get it myself," Mrs. Cooper

not expensive at all. There was a sale at the bookstore so I got

Cooper's face froze at Avery's mention of

Cooper did not mind that the book was cheap, but she felt

a gift for him that was

sale, she was openly parading the fact that it was

the atmosphere had

then picked up the gift box on the table and said, "This gift box wasn't cheap,

the gift box cost more than the book, it was

you, Madam! I'm going to get dinner ready for Master Elliot now," said Mrs. Cooper as she rushed

turned around to glance at Elliot's

look as stern as

precisely, he was not

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