WARNING:- Although there is violence against women in this chapter, I request you who are bothered by these things not to read this chapter or read it on your own risk. I am also against the violence no matter how bad things the person has done. Because it is inhumane.

This is just a part of our story. So Please don't take on the heart.

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"It's nothing my love. We have to leave now." Alex held her head on place but she escaped from his grip and looked at Clara.

"Ahhhhh..." She screamed because the bullet was middle in Clara's brows and her eyes were wide open. Clara's chapter was closed there. She was no more.

Avery could not bear the shock of Clara's death and fainted in Alex's arms.

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Avery blinked a few times then opened her brown eyes.

"How are you feeling now.." A familiar voice fell on her ears. She rolled her eyes at the voice. Max's face was in front of hers. Whose face was showing concern for her?

"Brother...." She was trying to get up.

"It's Okay. You can lie down."

"No my back is paining." Max helped her to sit up, and when she sat to relax on the bed, she saw her husband standing in the doorway. Her breath stopped as soon as she saw him. Her chest began to move up and down. She quickly grabbed Max's lower arm, who was standing next to her.

"Brother, he killed Clara. Even though she was pregnant, he killed her." She began to sob very hard. "He is a monster. He will also kill me." Her words were like a knife for Alex. He took two steps forward to embrace her but, "stop there", Her words froze his feet in place.

'I need to do something for both of them.' Max thought and grabbed Avery's and pulled her back from her madness. "I know but you have to give him a chance to explain himself. Now I have to go now."

" Brother....Brother..... Please stop, don't leave me here with him." Max walked out of the room and Alex closed the door. As he was stepping towards her, Avery's fear was increasing. She quickly got out of the bed and stood up.

"Please stop. Please." The IV drip was still connected to her hand.

"Please wait." She was acting completely crazy. She was just trying to stop him. But in the next moment, he was in front of her. He grabbed her right hand and held it in the air and pulled the IV tube out from the needle. He did not want her to be hurt.

"Ale...." He clasped his lips on hers and quickly grabbed her small waist.

He gently brought her hand down from the air and held it on her back while pulling her even closer. When he felt that she had completely calmed down, he let go of her lips. He looked at her face. Her eyes were still closed and tears continued to flow from them.

He scooped her in his arms and lay down on the bed. He also lay down beside her.

"Ave. Open your eyes once. Please." He muttered. He put his hand on her cheek. "Please my love." She opened her eyes.

" Alex...."

"Shuu." He put his finger on her lips. " Let me explain, please..... First of all, she was not pregnant." Avery widened her eyes in disbelief.

"No! You are lying."

"My Love." He put his hand on Avery's belly. " I swear to my unborn child and also I have proof." Alex pulled out his cell phone and showed the video to Avery. In that video, Clara was talking to a doctor about her fake pregnancy report.

Avery looked at Alex with her eyelids up. She had a lot of questions in her head that she wanted to be answered. "Alex." She closed her eyes for a moment. She did not understand how to ask.

"I never slept with her." He answered her unasked question.

"Huh.."

"That's what you want to ask." Avery nodded her head and a beautiful smile formed on Alex's lips. He came to her ears and whispered. "I have never slept with anyone except my wife and the result is in her womb."

"Alex." She whispered and quickly turned her face to the other side.

" Don't My Love." Alex grabbed her chin and turned her face towards him. "Don't look anywhere when your husband is here. You don't know how long I've been waiting for this day." While talking to her, his eyes went to her swollen cheeks.

"Does it still hurt."

"No."

"Really." Avery bit her lower lip and lowered her eyelid.

"Don't do this, my love. Look at me." She looked at him. "Tell me."

"It hurts a little."

Alex got out of bed and walked over to the refrigerator in that hospital room. When he opened the refrigerator, there were no ice cubes in it. 'This max is a very useless person.' He cursed under his breath. But there was a bottle of cold water. He took that bottle and went back to bed. He lay down next to her and grabbed that bottle closer to her cheek. His action made her laugh.

"I couldn't believe that the Chairman and CEO of ELIZA Group could do such a thing."

"Anything for you."

" Hmm. Let me do it." Avery put her hand on the bottle.

"No! You just lie down."

"But Alex...."

"Shhuuu.. Ave doesn't say anything. Let me open my heart in front of you today." Avery could see the pain in his blue eyes so she thought it best to stay quiet.

"Four months before our wedding, Clara was here just to find you. It was her mission to find you. At that time, if I had not put a barrier in her investigation and not caught her in my love, she would have reached out to you.

Whenever you were crying, I was always around you but never came in front of you. You don't know how hard it was for me to ignore you."