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!

with a cold sneer, his

you familiar with the fact that I am

shivered at his words, and Hank's face lost

their reactions, ditched his earlier slump

+25 BONUS

smug satisfaction.

thumbs-up, but unless I bow out, you're out of

taunting eyebrow raised at Hank, oozing arrogance that could make

so. If anything,

Hank brushed it off.

Evie. If things were peachy, why would her uncles even think of passing her happiness to me? Since you're clearly not the dream team, isn't a split just a ticking time bomb? Plus, James men off period is almost up,

cucumber on the outside. Internally, however, he