Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

He had not really looked at Evangeline's eyes since she walked in. At this moment, however, he saw the redness, the signs she had been crying a lot. Was she this upset, crying over him... because she cared?

While Walter was still in shock, Evangeline snatched his hand away. There, on the small patch of gauze over his belly, a dark stain was spreading. The wound had started to bleed again. Walter had only himself to blame for his carelessness.

Evangeline shot him a withering look before turning on her heel to fetch a doctor.

In the treatment room, Walter, ever the rebel, was pinned down by the medical team for a stitch redo.

Evangeline watched in silence, her beautiful face an icy mask. To the uninformed, she might have seemed like someone enjoying her nemesis's downfall. She was, in fact, seething.

Walter, the cause of all this, winced and grinned through the doctor's prodding, looking infuriatingly smug.

When a noise, akin to a pig's squeal, escaped Walter, Evangeline's patience snapped, and she stormed out of the surgery room.

David had to deal with some family stuff, so Caden was on night duty.

Evangeline bumped into Caden, who had rushed over, just as she stepped out.

him?"

think? He messed

out a sigh. "Now that you're here, try to get

just take care of himself, you wouldn't have to feel so bad about being saved,

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words weighed her down like a ton of bricks, and her feet would

of divorce. Afterward, she would not have the right to be by Walter's bedside, no matter how much she might want

Not that she would ever admit she stayed out of a soft

the night, and then made her way back to the ward. Walter was done with his stitches, his face a ghostly shade of pain. He lay there, not daring to make a fuss, just

His

when he saw Evangeline had not left. "Why are you still

she not want to

doctors were busy stitching him up, she had slipped away. Wasn't it to get back to Alex