Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 216

Evangeline checked the time on her phone and frowned.

It was way past late, and Walter was still grinding away at work. Did he forget he was nursing an injury?

"How's Walter's injury doing?"

They were on the brink of divorce, so whether Walter was kicking or not should not matter to her. However, his injury was no ordinary scrape, and if she did not at least pretend to care, it felt sort of apathetic. What she did not realize was that her words just jogged David's memory.

The boss playing knight in shining armor for Evangeline? That had to up the odds of a reconciliation, right?

With that, he started to spice up the tale, mixing a bit of truth with a healthy

dose of fiction.

"He ignored the doctor's orders and checked himself out of the hospital. He spent the whole night by a patient's bedside, no rest for the weary.

and raised hell. I'm not sure about how the boss is holding up, because he's tight- lipped. But ever since the suits left, he's been looking like a ghost. Maybe he's hurt worse than he lets on, toughing it out

was not David's style, but after years at Walter's side,

tale that

craftily more fiction than fact, glossing over the

she heard about Walter's ghostly pale face. Panic

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him to a hospital? As his assistant, how can you

Walter's right-hand man, was supposed to sweat the small

worriedly said, "The boss is super cranky. I could tell, and

He was not lying.

ticked off the big man, he

on him. I mean no disrespect, but... Well, our boss got hurt saving you. If anything happens to him because of that injury, you'd feel awful, right? Even if you were divorced." Evangeline did not react

for her sake... She had been guilt-tripped before, but

and, without a second thought about the late