Chapter 2242


    Avery sounded calm as if they were discussing an inconsequential matter.


    "Have you thought this through?"


    "Does this need thinking about?" Avery asked in return.


    Elliot shook his head.


    "Don''t shake your head. Have you forgotten that you have head injuries?" Avery sighed.


    She understood how Elliot felt. After going through so many incidents together, it was easy to


    understand the other person''s heart.


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    "What about next Monday? Hayden said that he is leaving on the weekend. We''ll head to the Civil


    Registry Office on Monday. We''ll get Hayden toe along." Avery was reluctant to be apart from


    her son.


    "If you want Hayden to stay with you for a few more days, we can go to the registrar next Monday,


    instead of this Friday." Elliot understood what she was trying to do, so he made that suggestion.


    "I can''t force Hayden to stay with me just because he listens to me. This will affect his studies. Do


    you know how tired Hayden usually is? The things he learns in a year is something students his age


    will take a couple of years or maybe longer to learn. I can''t affect his ns," Avery said.


    "What ns does he have?" Elliot did not know much about Hayden''s life.


    "He surely has his own education nned out. Although I have never spoken to him about it, I


    believe that he is a person with ns," Avery said determinedly. "Hayden is very much like you, so


    whatever he wants to do, I''ll allow it."


    "Hmm."


    Two dayster, Sebastian returned to Bridgedale. After a night of rest, he adjusted to the time


    difference.


    At eight in the morning, he arrived at Dean''s mansion.


    "Natalie has disappeared?" Dean was not satisfied with Sebastian''s trip to Aryadelle. He had an


    ugly scowl stered on his face. His voiceyered with disapproval. "Tell me how she disappeared.


    She is a living human being! If she is alive, I want to see her! If she is dead, I want to see her body!"


    "Dad, I found her phone in her room." Sebastian took Natalie''s phone and passed it to his father.


    "Do you remember this phone? I''ve seen her use it before."


    "I''ve never noticed small issues like that. Why are you giving me her phone? Is there anything


    inside?" Dean took the phone and unlocked it.


    "Dad, do you know Holly nche? She was the criminal that Natalie hired back in Ylore. Natalie got


    her to trick Elliot and Avery into the underground cer, where she trapped them," said Sebastian,


    exining it to his father. "The criminal who did all this was Holly nche. She and Natalie were


    recently in contact."


    Dean''s expression instantly changed.


    "Why is Natalie contacting this criminal?" Dean asked while tapping the messages on the screen.


    "Natalie has nowhere else to go. She has forever lost Elliot''s trust. Now that she has betrayed you,


    she is desperate," Sebastian said sardonically. "She is trying to get to Ivy so that she can get back


    into Elliot''s good graces."


    "Sebastian, how did you manage to find her phone? Why was her phone at home?" Dean asked.


    "I don''t know, too. She had been hiding on a hill. There was no one living on that hill. It took us


    plenty of effort to get up there." Sebastian knew that his father would be suspicious, so he had


    taken a video of the hike up the hill.


    After Dean saw the video, he was no longer suspicious.


    "I''m guessing that there are wild beasts on the hill. Perhaps Natalie had been attacked," Sebastian


    said. "I think the possibility of her being captured is lower. It is not easy to hike up that hill."


    "Then, we don''t need to care about her anymore." Now that Dean had Natalie''s phone and there


    were important messages on her phone, Dean no longer cared whether Natalie was dead or alive.


    "Who would have thought that Holly nche had been hiding in Bridgedale."