Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 249

Alex's voice was a soft murmur, yet it held a quiet strength.

Evangeline's anxiety melted away as she listened to him.

"Head on home. This brotherly beef is ours to sort out. With you here, there are things Walter just won't say."

Evangeline let out a huff. Walter had no problém spewing nasty words; was there anything he would actually be ashamed to say? Alex had made up his mind, and despite her worries, she could not stay.

"Alright, I'm heading back then. You... Just take care, okay?"

Σ

With a heart heavy with worry, Evangeline cast one last glance at Alex before she turned and left without a second thought.

sprawling garden felt empty, leaving just Walter and Alex in

sky was smudging into twilight, and the garden's twinkling lights cast their identical

faced the brother who was his mirror

that Evie's gone, let's hear it. Whatever you've got to say, I'm all

eye since he was a little kid. Alex, however, was stuck in second place behind the golden boy of the Gordon clan. He could barely catch a break, always living in the shadow of his brother's

not treat them the same. Alex was over it. He knew he was on his

used to stepping aside for Walter. Whenever he played

it's just us here. You can drop the

+25 BONUS

Chapter 249 Walter.

the one always bending over backward, and somehow he

up to the plate, taking on a mess that could have ended in disaster, and he turned it around. A few years down the line, and he would have brought the company back from the dead, making it rain for the, shareholders and boosting

to grow up. Out of the blue, Trey declared that Walter would be the one to take over the family business.

of an eye, Alex went from top dog at Gordon Group to the family's zero, the black