Chapter 273

Avery heard his question. She slightly sobered her up.

Did he think that she would spill the truth simply because she had a bit too much to drink?

He had underestimated her.

She had drunk a little too much, but it was only beer and not wine. Beer would not completely make her

lose her mind.

She decided to ignore him and go to sleep.

Elliot listened to her breathing and stared at the screen of his phone, reluctant to hang up. She would

have never called unless she was drunk.

Avery jolted awake at eight in the morning. It was a nightmare that had woken her. A nightmare about

the time when her father had just passed away.

With his death and the company declaring bankruptcy, Avery and her mother had wandered the streets

like homeless strays. She had been thirsty and dying for water, but they had not a penny to their name,

so they could not buy water. 2

drenched in sweat when she woke up. She sighed a breath of

whispered to herself, "It's in the

man's husky voice came

Are you awake?"

and stared at her phone, thinking," What's

voice coming from

ghosts don't appear during the daytime." She took

up the

to herself. He looked

screen,

on call with Elliot

felt like

she thought as she stared at her phone

had happened, but she

awake?" He took the initiative and broke the

"I'm sorry... I

I?"

course," he

started to hurt even more as she tried her best to remember what had happened the night

before.

wished me happy birthday," he

wished that I

"Huh?"

had been drinking because James was on his way

about

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