Chapter 972

"Evadne, you and Thad, you're not even legally married."

Evadne's pupils contracted sharply, her breath hitched.

"He hasn't proposed, no wedding bells have rung. Not three years ago, not now. Not even a decent diamond ring to speak of. And yet, he dares to call himself your husband? Laughable."

Avery tenderly took her soft hand, gently kissing the back of it before slipping a shimmering pear-shaped pink diamond ring onto her finger.

Evadne wanted nothing more than to fling it into the ocean's depths.

But she was paralyzed, allowing Avery to manipulate her as he pleased.

too indecisive, too scared to take a step forward or back. A man so feeble

Rose Island, with the local wildlife and seabirds as our witnesses. I own a vast field of roses

by word, "With you, none of this means anything! Avery, no matter how cunning

complexion turning even more ghostly, adding an eerie, cold

pale fingers reaching for her neck as he leaned in, aiming for the lips he had dreamt of kissing

is she?" Evadne, desperate

clenched, pausing

his glasses, the grief and

mother... she passed away,"

"When?!" Evadne's head buzzed.

for Rose Island, she left us," Avery's palms turned cold, perhaps out of guilt, as he dared not meet Evadne's

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