His Eagle Eyes on Me

It was the day of Avonsville socialite Avery Tate's wedding, but there was no groom in sight.

The groom, Elliot Foster, had been in a vegetative state since a car crash half a year ago. His doctors said that he was not going to make it until the end of the year

In a grief-stricken act, Elliot's mother decided to arrange a marriage for her son before he met his untimely end.

The Fosters were one of the wealthiest families in Avonsville, but no socialite in her right mind would want to marry a man who was knocking on Death's door.

Avery sat at the vanity with her slender figure gracefully dressed in a white wedding gown. With her elegant makeup that brought out the exquisiteness of her pale complexion, she looked as delicate as a budding red rose. 2

Yet, there was an uneasiness in her almond-shaped eyes.

There was only another 20 minutes until the ceremony, and Avery was frantically sliding her fingers across her phone screen, anxiously awaiting a text message.

She had a boyfriend before she was forced to marry Elliot, and it was a terrible coincidence that he just happened to be Elliot's nephew, Cole Foster.

However, they had never made their relationship public. 2

Avery had texted Cole the night before in hopes that they would escape Avonsville together and elope. She had stayed up all night waiting, but she never got a reply. She could wait no longer.

Avery rose from her seat, clenched her hand around her phone and made up an excuse to leave the room.

She hurried down the corridor and froze in her tracks as she walked past one of the rooms.

Avery heard the sound of her sister, Cassandra giggling delightedly through the slightly ajar room door.

"I bet my dumb sister is still waiting for you to go to her, Cole! Maybe you should go and butter her up a

little more. What are we going to do if she changes her mind and decides to back out of the wedding?"

"Do you think she has a choice now that things have come this far?" Cole said as he held Cassandra in his arms and nuzzled his thin lips against her neck."

tries to back out now, the

the altar by the

mind if she finds out that you've been spending every

head. She took a step

around her gown and held back the tears in

father was admitted into hospital when

stepmother, Wanda Tate, turned on Avery and forced her to marry into the Foster family so she could reap the benefits. She had made it sound like the marriage was for the good of the Tate family, but Avery knew that this was Wanda's way of getting

the fact that the boyfriend who

Cole urged her to carry on with the wedding. He said

of her hopes and dreams were crushed,

the voices in the room intensified, Avery clenched her fists, and her eyes turned ice

her father's sake. She suffered through

too

would no longer allow them to take her

take back all that was

ceremony began

in her hands, Avery walked down the

vows and put

but she

on, she was Mrs. Foster, and she

new husband, who used to hold Avonsville in the

Avery was sent

of the city's affluent district and cost

Avery could properly take in the mansion's layout, Mrs. Cooper had dragged her to

bedroom.

eyes were immediately drawn to the man on the large

deep-set features stood out on his chiseled face, and he exuded a majestic

was unusually pale from spending all that time indoors, but his handsome face made

not sick, Avery would have

been bed-ridden from the car crash, Elliot was a powerful figure