Chapter 290
Avery looked at the photo.
Without knowing it, she fell into a daze. How could she not feel anything when it came to him?
Her heart hurt a little would she give him her blessing?
No.
“Avery, what are you daydrea ming about?
Your children are bullying me!
Come and help me!” Mike walked over to the sofa and pulled Avery up,placing himself behind her.
Avery immediately snapped back to reality.
She looked normal.
“Hayden, about changing schools after the New Year’s. Have you thought about it?”
This question instantly subdued the atmosphere in the living room.
“Mommy, are you letting Hayden go to the same preschool as me?”
Layla asked excitedly.
“Hayden is not going to preschool; he is going to elementary school,” Avery said. Hayden nodded.
Although his relationship with Shea was not as badas it was before, Shea was one of Elliot’s people, and he did not like Elliot one bit.
So,only by leaving Angela Special Needs Academy and Shea would he stay out of trouble.
“Woo, woo!
I’m as bigas Hayden.
Why does he get to go to elementary school while I’m still stuck in preschool?
I want to go to elementary school too!”
Layla grumbled while tugging on Avery’s hand.
Laura came over and picked Layla up.
“Layla, even if you want to go to elementary school, you have to wait for Hayden to get used to it before going.
Okay?”
“Oh.
Okay then!”
Avery smiled and said, “Layla, there’s an entrance exam for the elementary school.
Let’s see whether Hayden can pass it or not.”
Layla was in a daze.
“Uh, that sounds hard.
I think I’ll stick to preschool!”
It started snowing heavily at eleven that night.
When Avery opened the window of her bathroom, she caught a glimpse of the view.
Coming out of her bathroom, she opened the curtains of her room.
Looking at the snow coming down, she felt calm.
She thought about her past to a time before she had broken up with Elliot. She remembered the things they had gone through.
The passing of the seasons was a cycle of life and death.
For a person who was alive, what mattered the most was life and death.
The others were unimportant Avery took a deep breath.
If it snowed through the night,s he could build a snowman with her children tomorrow.
They would be delighted.
with this sense of peace in her, Avery go tinbed, switched offthe light s, and went to sleep.
Elliot just came out from his study and returned to his bedroom. Just when he was about to close his curtai ns,he noticed the snow outside his window.
He suddenly thought back to the winter five years ago.
Avery had knitted a sweater for him. It was a thick sweater. He never liked sweaters.
However, when he had received the swea ter, he had immediately putit on.
He still remembered how his heart had thrummed with joywhen he wore the sweater she had made.
He walked over to his closet and opened it.
In it,that ordinary lookin g sweater was still hanging there.
It stood out against all the other branded shirts and suits.
After their breakup, he had never worn it again.
He did not know why, but he took the sweater out and putit over his head.
The sweater was warm, but his heart was cold.
That day, Zoehad asked him.
She wanted to go shopping with him.
He accompanied her.
When they passed by a jewelry shop, she was attracted by the pieces of jewelry there.
She picked a very cheap ring.
Elliot said nothing but paid the bill.
It was as if he had given her the ring.
He was still not in love with her, but she was quiet.
She never disturbed him.
If he had to find a woman to settle down with, he could bear living with a woman like her.
In the coming spring, if she could cure Shea, he was going to marry her.