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?"

regal princess keep getting

to kick him out of her life for

the same, which was why they all kept silent

watching, Evangeline gave a

long as Grandpa is okay, I'll do whatever it

worry, but Evangeline cracked a

patch things up, I won't have to stay here. I just need to convince Grandpa that

was a storm of mixed

she actually share a home with Walter and keep

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

she could not dwell

with tension as

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

anesthesia had been so