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.

shots showed up 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 for the job's sake!" 'So, Evangeline, better hurry and give him

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

a tale

had craftily more fiction than fact, glossing over the gritty details and painting

pale face. Panic set in before she could even wonder if David was spinning

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aren't you getting him to a hospital? As his assistant, how can you let him stay and

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

million times, but the boss just won't listen!" David worriedly said, "The boss is super cranky. I could tell, and I didn't want to make it

He was not lying.

living. If he ticked off the big man, he

disrespect, but... Well, our boss got hurt saving you. If anything happens to him because of that injury,

She had been

second thought about