Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 166

The silence in the room was deafening.

Evangeline and Walter looked at each other, a million words hanging in the air, yet neither could find their voice.

Evangeline's mind buzzed with questions and her heart ached to offer comfort, but the words got stuck in her throat at the sight of Walter's ghostly pale face. Walter had things on his mind too.

The thought of Evangeline rushing to the airport to pick up Alex, while he was stuck in surgery, left him at a loss for words.

The silence stretched on, an invisible barrier neither of them could break.

David, ever so thoughtful, lingered at the door, careful not to intrude, giving them the space they needed.

Silence had its own way of shattering, though.

With a grimace, Walter propped himself up, a sharp pain lancing through his abdomen.

"You..." Evangeline's words trailed off as she instinctively reached for a pillow and tucked it gently under Walter's back. Catching his bewildered look, she mumbled an embarrassed explanation, "It should help you feel a bit better."

audible, his

laptop lay open on the nightstand, a testament to the work he had

turned into such a mess, he would

control.

had put him out for too long. Walter

his teeth against the ache in his lower abdomen, he reached for

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he was trying to do, but instead of passing him the

moment, Evangeline's usual resolve

ache in her heart kept reminding her how much she

said coolly, his strong, defined hand slipping past Evangeline to snatch the laptop

and dove into work mode, but not before reminding Evangeline, "It's getting

his polite way of

she could not overstay her welcome, so she got up to

car, making

was Evangeline, sitting in the driver's seat, gripping the keys with the engine running, but unable to muster the strength to hit the

could not do it. 'Evangeline, Walter's lying in a hospital bed, still pushing himself to work, and he's doing it all