When His Eyes Opened

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Holding back tears, Avery turned in anger and stormed of station.

She not sign the release paper, nor did she her phone from Elliot.

Elliot signed the papers and left the station.

On the car ride home, he passed her her said in a didn’t go through it.

”

Avery took her phone and her breathing was heavy as she said, “But you already know what’s inside.

”

“Are they important? Those photos…”

Avery her teeth and warned herself not to lose her with Elliot.

was the who helped phone back after all.

Her hand around phone as “If I told you that the baby you had me abort wasn’t but yours… guilty all?”

Elliot head and glanced her.

serious, and did not seem like kidding.

He and responded in a voice, “From IVF treatments?” “Yes,” Avery answered.

She his gaze and said, “You own child with your hands.

Do you feel any guilt?”

She hoped to see the hint of remorse on his face make feel better.

prayed that he a man of flesh and blood and not cold-blooded money-making machine.

The on Elliot’s face puzzled her.

knew that would be heart, but he still replied indifferently, “I don’t.

It was meant born in the first place.

”

Avery chuckled coldly and asked, “Would be so calm if your own parents said that about you?” “I would thank them they never birth to me,” he answered.

“Not everyone wishes to born into world, Avery.

”

Avery her brows.

Did he not wish to be born?

How come?

Elliot’s mother him unconditionally, had a successful career, and there were plenty of people around him who him he was center of their universe…

Why he so pessimistic?

What exactly did he have to go through?

“Are depressed?” asked she could not help but analyze his words from a medical perspective.

“There treatments for depression.

If you’re sick, you see a doctor as soon possible.

”

The expression on Elliot’s face relaxed slightly.

“If being could make you dwell on me, go ahead and treat me like a person!”

It was close midnight when they arrived at mansion.

Once Avery was her room, she tired she did not have the energy to think anything.

She got into bed asleep soon after.

That night, she had a dream.

She dreamt of the reason behind Elliot’s pessimism.

In her a Elliot and his father.

His father an strict man had patience for playful son.

Young Elliot had to the of his father’s belt until he bled…

His howling cries were heartbreaking.

The bloody images in her nightmare made her wake in horror.

the window, dawn had broken, and sky was getting brighter.

got up on arms began to mumble to trying to make herself feel better, “There’s no his father would hit him like that.

Even if he his mother would stop it… Dreams are always opposite of reality.

There’s no way he abused.

”

However, she was certain that Elliot have gone through something to world a s much as he did.

Not only did hate the world, he did not want to bring the next generation into it.

born to be bad.

Her loathing for him suddenly slightly.

was not fault, and she.

Fate was the only to for entangling their lives together.