Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 215

Holden strolled out, cracking jokes as he tugged Evangeline along.

The once bustling office fell eerily silent, so devoid of life that Walter felt utterly alone.

Slumped in his chair at the desk, Walter reached for a file on instinct, but he moved too fast, and a sharp jab of pain shot through his injured abdomen.

his on

The pain forced a hiss from his lips, but he tried to ignore it.

In the scuffle with Evangeline's uncles, he had relied on finesse over brute strength, aiming to take them down with a single move. Of course, even the slickest moves require some effort, and t was no surprise that he had aggravated his injury. Despite the throbbing pain, and the very real possibility that the wound might reopen and bleed, he stubbornly refused to dwell on it.

The image of Evangeline, not hesitating for a second to agree to that blind date, kept replaying in his head, causing a different kind of ache, one that seemed to compete with the physical pain.

He could not tell which hurt more, his heart or his wound.

With a pale, strained smile, Walter flipped open the file and dove into his work.

Evangeline, back with the Fosters and her uncles, could not shake a feeling of unease.

uncles gave him a hard time. Everything he was going through was because of her, and

hit her then-fighting could easily make his injury worse. The paleness of Walter's face when she left... It was likely a sign that

worse.

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do. Evangeline needed to make a call,

after three tries, all she got was that annoying voicemail

on earth could Walter be? She hoped nothing bad had happened

him.

call she had gotten. from David earlier that day. She hit redial, and

David did not usually chat on the phone. Her role

him out of the blue... Well, that was

her throat, feeling a wave of

was about

where Walter might be? I've been trying to reach him, and he's

hardly contain his excitement. He was practically

breath.

right? At 9 p.m., a