Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

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Chapter 198

Evangeline's brow furrowed on the other end of the line.

"You've barely unpacked from your trip abroad. Why the rush to work?"

She figured Alex would chill for a bit, maybe catch up with Trey before diving into the job scene. It seemed he was already on the move.

Alex let out a sigh, pretending to be trapped by circumstance. "What can I do? The job landed in my lap, and the higher-ups said, 'Get over here now.' So, I went. Evangeline could not help but smirk.

For any regular person coming back from overseas, hustling for a quick buck made sense, but this was Alex.

The same Alex who once made a fortune for the Gordons! Money troubles? As if.

"Spill it, Alex. Since when do you need cash? What's the real deal?"

friendship went way back, even without bringing Walter into the mix. They could shoot straight with

hit. Then, like he was done fighting it, he admitted in a calm

Evangeline was momentarily

right, being cooped up at home is just

was at his breaking point, and Evangeline

his thumbs; it was more about feeling lost. He just did not fit into the Gordon family lifestyle

back on a wheelchair, facing a world that had flipped upside down. No

circumstances, getting a job might actually

today? Surely you're not

Alex, being Walter's relative, meant getting too chummy

us at Avalon University as a guest professor. "You might be in the

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The Gordons and the Fosters go way back, so the school figured I'd be the

out.