Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 269

Walter cut off Evangeline's caution with a cocky eyebrow lift. "Evangeline, you really think I'd have sleazy thoughts about you?"

The kind of thoughts a husband had for his wife was considered sleazy? Were they not just part of the deal?

For Evangeline, however, those words twisted into something else entirely as they reached her ears.

She was just kidding herself all along. Walter had never really been into her. What could he possibly want with her if not just to blow off some steam?

She raised her eyes slowly, meeting the gaze of her uncles.

Holden, the most fiercely protective of the bunch, had tears welling up eyes. "Evie, if you're going to

in bis lie to Grandpa now, you've got to be ready to keep that lie going until his last day. Are you... sure about this?"

getting tangled up with a guy like Walter,

nonsense, to kick him out of her life for good. However, the sight of Cole, so still and pale

the other four Foster brothers felt the same, which was why they all kept

five uncles watching, Evangeline gave a

is okay, I'll do whatever

faces were etched with worry, but Evangeline

I patch things up, I won't have to stay here. I just

was a storm of mixed emotions about the

share a home with

Foster family's care, splitting paths, how would she ever explain

not dwell on these questions

with tension as Cole finally stirred

tired, an oxygen tube trailing from his nose. When he saw Evangeline, his hand weakly reached out,

he was knocked out under anesthesia had been