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?"

untouchable, regal princess keep getting tangled up with a guy like Walter, the town

to kick him out of her life for good. However, the sight of Cole, so still and pale in his hospital bed,

was why they

all five uncles watching,

fine. As long as Grandpa is okay, I'll do whatever

uncles' faces were etched with worry,

If Walter and I patch things up, I won't have

inside, Evangeline was a storm of mixed emotions about

she actually share a home with Walter and keep her heart locked

once they left the Foster family's care, splitting paths, how

she could not dwell

room was heavy with tension

eyes flickered open, dull and tired, an oxygen tube trailing from his nose. When he saw Evangeline, his hand weakly reached out,

save him while he was knocked out under anesthesia had been