His Eagle Eyes on Me

He wanted to give Layla whatever she wanted and that was the way he had been treating Layla all long since she was a child.

"You know my condition," Eric deadpanned. "You wouldn't want Layla to marry me, only to be widowed later. She would be in far more pain then. Just talk some sense into her and make her marry a normal guy. She will forget about me at some point," Eric said.

Elliot agreed with Eric that Layla would suffer no matter what and it was normal to think that it would be better to cut the losses early. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the (F)indNƟvᴇl.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

While others could look at the matter objectively, Elliot could not do so and all he knew was that he did not want to upset Layla.

"My wife told you everything." Elliot stared into Eric's eyes. "We won't try to talk Layla into giving up. If that's what you want, you will have to talk to her. She is twenty-five, not two, or five. She gets to make the calls about her own life."

Eric had not expected such a sudden change to Elliot's view on the matter.

"Don't look at me like that." Elliot scowled. "If you have a child, you will know how difficult it is to be a father."

"I might never be a father."

your parents a hundred percent of the time, why would you want us to make Layla do

time to think alone," Eric

strode out of

Meanwhile, in Aryadelle.

from school and the servants

had returned home later than usual, so Robert did

with me tonight?" Robert sat down next to her. "One of my classmates is having her birthday party.

some time

I didn't turn her

then!" Ivy smiled. "It's your gathering, so I

think the majority are girls." Robert wanted to

not that he thought

for her to befriend his classmates, but because Elliot had specifically told him to