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.

time. Everything he was going through was because of her, and the thought of just leaving him to deal with it alone was

could easily make his injury worse. The paleness of Walter's face when she left...

worse.

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do. Evangeline needed to make a

all she got was that annoying voicemail

She hoped nothing bad had

him.

day. She hit redial, and this time, David picked

and David did not usually chat on the phone. Her role as a key decision-maker in the Foster family made it

out of the

her throat, feeling a wave of embarrassment

was about to

where Walter might be? I've been trying to reach

could hardly contain his excitement. He was practically

breath.

a time ripe with possibilities, she was looking for his