Chapter 860

Mike held Avery in his arms and comforted her in a low voice.

“Men and women have different ways of thinking. He must have been afraid that this would affect you
and the children. He was wrong to assume your ability to handle these things.”

“I don’t want to know what he was thinking because he has never told me how he truly felt,” Avery
sobbed, “I would be a joke if I always had to depend on others, or the news, to find out what he was
going through! I can’t sympathize with him! Even if he died from a sickness right now, I still won’t feel
bad for him!”

“Don’t cry, Avery.” Mike had a mountain of things he wanted to say to console her, but they never
escaped his lips,

Love was not something that could be explained with a few sentences.

Elliot was threatened into having to marry a disfigured Chelsea and become a laughing stock. He had
spent the first half of his life in glory and never had to experience this type of humiliation

However, what did Avery ever do wrong? Avery got tired from all the crying and fell asleep. She did not
dream that night and had a fairly good night’s sleep. When she woke up the next morning, she was in
good spirits apart from her slightly puffy eyes.

Today was the day of Adrian White’s surgery.

Avery made her way to the hospital at ten in the morning.

“Are you alright, Doctor Tate?” Adrian’s father, Nathan White, asked as he gazed at her with shrewd
eyes.



“Your issues with Elliot Foster won’t affect the surgery, right?”

Avery did not expect Nathan to say such things.

Her relationship with Elliot had never completely been made public, but Nathan seemed to know quite
a bit about it.

“Mr. White, I would be honest with you if I was not feeling well and not fit to perform surgery. Since I’m
here, it means I’m fine,” Avery explained clearly as she stared at Nathan’s face.

For some reason, once again, looking at him in such close proximity made her feel a peculiar sense of
familiarity.

“I’m sorry. I was not doubting you. I just don’t think Elliot Foster should treat you like this.” Nathan
smiled softly.

“That’s between him and me, Mr. White,” Avery said in astonishment.

“Do you perhaps know him well?”

Nathan shook his head with a grin and said, “How could I possibly know a bigshot like him? I’m just an
ordinary businessman. I’m afraid my annual income isn’t even as much as how much he makes in a
day!”

His teasing came with a hint of mockery and made Avery feel extremely uneasy. She could not help but
feel like his words carried a strange vendetta against Elliot.

“You should go and check on Adrian, Doctor Tate! The doctor gave him a checkup and said he was fit
for surgery,” Nathan said after holding back his emotions. Before Avery walked into the patient’s room,
she glanced at the man and woman standing behind Nathan



The woman was Adrian’s sister whom she had metd3 before. However, this was the first time she had
seen the man standing next to her.

“This is Adrian’s brother, Doctor Tate. He’s normally quite busy, so you haven’t met him before. Since
today’s the day of Adrian’s big surgery, our whole family came to support him,” explained Nathan.

“I see. Is your wife not here today?” Avery could not help but ask. She typically did not care much about
her patient’s family’s private matters, but Nathan made her uncomfortable and she had to ask.

“We’re divorced.”

“I’m sorry.” Avery’s curiosity came to an end. Once the conversation was over, she entered the patient’s
room. After she looked through Adrian’s vitals and test results that day, she pulled out her phone and
checked the time.

She was not sure how long the surgery would take. What she could confirm was that, by the time the
surgery was over, Elliot and Chelsea’s wedding should already be nearing its end.

They had announced the news of their engagement a few days ago, and could not wait to hold the
wedding. It did not matter if Elliot wanted this wedding or not.

Today, he was about to become someone else’s groom! Avery pursed her lips, then pressed down on
her phone’s power button until the screen turned dark.


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