Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 271 Chapter

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In the room, Walter sat by Cole's hospital bed, ready to have a heart-to-heart conversation.

Cole squared off with Walter, the grandson-in-law he had never quite approved of, and his voice was icy with disapproval. "Spit it out if you've got something to say. You might not get another chance."

When picking a husband for Evangeline, Cole never cared for family status or good looks. It was all about character.

So what if Walter came from a fa

amily? So what if he looked like he stepped out of a magazine? If he

did not measure up to Cole's standards for a grandson-in-law, and Cole saw no reason to play nice. Walter was no fool; he could

conversation was a hair's breadth away from Cole showing him the door without saying

would stand his ground, even if it meant taking a metaphorical slap to

I'm about to say hard to

Once you and Evie are done, we're nothing to each other. Why

been protective of his reputation, but he did not even offer Walter a shred of

with you-I'm never going to divorce

better than to pick a fight with Cole, especially when he was this upset. If he did not get to the point, Cole might

"What, you can't make Evie happy, and now you won't let her go find happiness elsewhere? Is this the selfishness that

that the man his darling granddaughter had once begged to marry would turn out to be such a

emotion, Cole

him down, "Grandpa, you've got it all wrong. What I'm trying to say is, it doesn't matter if Evie's heart is with me. I... I don't want a divorce. I want to be with her for the rest of my life." "What are you getting at?" Cole fought back his cough, a flicker of doubt in his eyes. He knew all too well Evangeline's feelings when she stubbornly chose to marry this guy. Could it