Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 226

"You might think you're just keeping your promise to take me out to eat, but it's not that simple for me.

"Your uncles picked this place for dinner on purpose. They wanted to set us up on a blind date." Each word Hank spoke hit Evangeline like a bolt of lightning, leaving her mind a total blank.

As she tried to wrap her head around his revelation, her mouth opened and closed, speechless.

Hank had already shifted his focus to Walter.

"Walter," he said. "What gives you the right to sit here and act out some drama about catching a cheater? Evie is her own person. It doesn't matter to you if we're just having dinner or if we're more than that. Her uncles are cool with us, so why should you have a say?" Hank delivered his speech coolly, leaving Evangeline with one thought: This guy was a master at dropping bombshells!

Stunned, Evangeline could not help but feel a twinge of glee at Walter's contorted, bitter expression. It was like he had swallowed a lemon.

She could not help but laugh inwardly. Walter was finally put in his place.

gave Hank a mental thumbs-up for

Nice one!

cold sneer, his good looks turning icy, like he was channeling a

are you familiar with the fact

shivered at his words, and Hank's

reactions, ditched his

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smug satisfaction.

You might be Mr. Perfect with her family's thumbs-up, but unless I bow out,

Hank, oozing arrogance that could make

don't think so. If anything, it's a

Hank brushed it off.

passing her happiness to me? Since you're clearly not the dream team, isn't a split just a ticking

back hard, cool as a cucumber on the outside. Internally, however, he was riding a tidal