Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Before Water could follow Evangeline, however, Trey called out to him,

"Hold it right there, boy f've got a bone to pick with your

Walter stopped and leaned against the door frame, though he looked a bit pale. "What's up?

"What's with the scow? if it wasn't for my quick thinking, do you think you'd have been able to keep Evie around? You don't even know what her grandpa looks like. Some husband you are!"

"I don't need your advice, and frankly, I don't care to know," Walter snapped back, his frown deepening and a coldness creeping into his gaze

"Go on, keep playing the tough guy Ewe's poured her heart into this family, and you? You've been nothing but a headache. I want that mother and daughter gone from downstairs, and don't you dare bring me more problems in the new year? Walter's lips were a tight line, his face any mack. Then, with a crease in his brow, he asked, "You're hiding something about Evangeline's grandpa from me aren't you

They had always and the was just a simple countryman but the man as the wides had the commanding aure and authority of someone with power, a true gentleman that did not look like any countryman he had heard of

Clearly, Trey and Ewangelme kay some secrets from Tiên

Trey, cod as a cumumber in his armchair, Raunted hum, Now you curious? Where was this interest before? Three years of manage and you're cludes adout war's family Maybe you should be asking yourself why graille sum auking me? Water's face tumet to stone, and he was on the verge of waking out

They watched him go fustration written all was sum. The done all I can for you, and don't forget that you promised to wist Evie's grandfather Kamp your promo Sort be a no show and embarrass me."

Walter's scowl deepened, and he snippet, Yam on top of ver

The door slammed befund Sum with a resounding Creol

The brooding Evangeline went back to their bedroom. She was ready to pack up her life in that place. it was water's old room, but even after three years of manage, he never once stayed

She had tried to make a home, Sut she was always done. She was done with the act

She started packing her things, ready to leave the fore she had made quer the last three years. Then, out of the blus, a chilly resonant voice echoed from being her

"What are you up to?

Evangeline jumped her heart skipping a beat When she spun, Waiter's stem, shadowedface met her

She quickly collected herself "Just what looks like en packing up to get out of here," Evangeline

reded her eyes cast as she contrued to til her case

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of the Gordons?" Walter lounged against the wall, arms folded, watching her with dark amusement, his whole presence

curves. The simple yet elegant black made an irresistibly enticing silhouette, almost taboo in its appeal. Her scent

wave of annoyance flashed across her striking features, and she retorted with a detached laugh. "Take a good look-all I'm taking

so fond of

a keepsake from Trey, meant to be a cherished memory, but she decided against it. She wanted

leather book in your suitcase, a priceless collector's item, straight

to me," Evangeline shot back, glaring at

gave them to his granddaughter-in-law.

lips pressed into a thin line, a

fling her neatly folded clothes out of the

items here, and that one-I recall they were all bought with the Gordon family's

over a few worn-out clothes?" Evangeline could not help but laugh, abandoning her packing to arch an eyebrow at him with a

towered over her, his features a mix of laid-back elegance and an icy aloofness that seemed to push everyone away. "Oh, I care," he said pointedly. "The shoes

words were a clear dare: She was free to leave, but she would have to do it without a stitch

the challenge defiantly. "So, I'm supposed to leave my used things

your precious Julia to second-hand my cast-offs? Wow, Mr. Walter Gordon, you're not just a jerk but a cheapskate too!"

mercilessly. "Let Julia use your hand-me-downs? You flatter yourself. I'm stopping you from taking these things because I'd rather burn them or toss them out than let you

me, so don't you worry your

in a standoff, like two hedgehogs in a winter

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Chapter 13

not

her voice hard as she emptied her suitcase, leaving behind only the two outfits she had brought when she

look, these are mine from before. The rest,

winter."

of defiance, every inch of her

in the room dropped to an

first to ever speak to

but Walter was not having

and pinned her against the

every piece of the Gordon family you're wearing," he demanded,

hear yourself? Your sweetheart's just downstairs. You