Eloise kept the shameful circumstances about Avery’s birth to herself despite patiently waiting for the time to tear her apart with it because of her promise to Finn.
So, she was a bastard and yet she took every chance she got to remind her of Ian’s birth. She might not have directly called Ian a bastard, but she sure was indirectly referring to it.
Every time, Avery tends to remind her to know her place and tuck her greed, not to covet anything Finn owns since it wholly belonged to her since she was the only legitimate child of her father without knowing her own mother cheated.
When Eloise received the DNA test results, she wanted to cackle out loud, as she was overwhelmed with both anger and annoyance, which she couldn’t hide from Finn as she challenged him about it.
But it was as if
