Chapter 1648

Shea lowered her head at Sandra's words.

The burden she had been carrying felt slightly lighter.

Wesley was relieved when he noticed that Shea was not as stubborn as she was earlier.

As expected, it was because of his mother that Shea had risked crossing Elliot to bear him a child.

He understood that her obedience to his mother was out of her love for him, or she would not have taken
his mother's wishes as commands.

"I do really want grandchildren, but my son is the most important of all," Sandra said with regret.

"Had I known that you are more important than life itself to him, I wouldn't have done something like
that." Shea lifted her gaze to look like Wesley.

"Shea, let's go and apologize to your brother later." Wesley held her hands.

"You hurt his feelings yesterday.I need to apologize to him as well.I promised him that I would take good
care of you, but I failed to fulfill said promise."

"No." Shea shook her head stubbornly.

"I will apologize to Big Brother, but you shouldn't." Wesley knew that Shea did not want him to take the
blame, so he agreed.

"Alright." He could always apologize to Elliot in private.

At noon, Avery received a call from Wesley.



"Avery, I've managed to convince Shea.Once Elliot is home from work, I will bring Shea over to apologize
to him."

"You don't need to apologize.How did you manage to convince her?"

"My mom did," Wesley explained with resignation.

"It was my mom who pressure her into getting pregnant to begin with."

"As long as she got Shea to give up."

Avery fell into silence for a few moments, before continuing, "It's a shame that she has to get rid of the
baby, though."

"She's in a bad mood right now.She locked herself in the room and refused to come out when I tried
calling her out for lunch."

"I guess apart from being pressured by your mom, she wanted the child herself." Avery felt sympathetic.

Wesley, there is another way.

"You mean to take the embryo out?"

Wesley had heard about it before, but where were they supposed to implant the embryo after taking it
out?

"Yeah."

Avery had not gone to the office because she had a headache.

Despite the pounding pain in her head, she spared some time to consider Shea's situation.



"I did some research today found that there are people overseas working on creating an environment
that is suitable for the embryo’s growth.It's called an artificial womb.They have tested it on animals, and
there were successful cases, but there were failed ones as well."

"I've heard about that before.It's still under testing and has yet to be advertised to the market."

"It's only not advertised because the method itself is not widely accepted by the general public.Besides,
it's too expensive for normal people to afford it," Avery said.

'We might as well try this instead of an abortion.Elliot can pay."

Wesley was confused by her last sentence.

"I can borrow it from my dad if I don't have enough."

"It's fine.Let Elliot pay for it," Avery said firmly.

"Wesley, I want him to pay.Don’t fight me on this, okay?"

Wesley noticed something from her tone and asked, "Are you two fighting?"

"No.He has been great to me, at least on the surface."

Though Avery did not say it out loud, Wesley took note of what she meant.

"Avery, if you are not happy with him, you can always walk away."

"I am not leaving him," she said in a determined voice.

"He's not cheating on me.He has simply started taking pity on that child.You can't sever the bond
between families.He is just human after all, and I shouldn't ask too much of him."



"As long as you've thought it through.Don't exhaust yourself over this."

"Yeah, I'll adjust myself."

She sucked in a breath and her tone became noticeably more relaxed.

"Are you guys at home? I'm not going to work today.Why don't I come see you?"

"Sure! Have you eaten? I can make something if you haven't."

"Okay!"

After hanging up, Avery returned to her room to change.

In the afternoon, Elliot received a call from Avery asking for 1.5 million dollars.He agreed to it right away
without asking for a reason.


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