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

grandson-in-law, and Cole saw no reason to play nice. Walter was no fool; he could read between the lines of Cole's

conversation was a hair's breadth away from Cole

stand his ground, even if it

might find what I'm about

and Evie are done, we're nothing to each other. Why lower yourself to call

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

be straight with

pick a fight with Cole, especially when he was this upset. If

narrowed into a fierce glare. "What, you can't make Evie happy, and now you won't let her go find happiness elsewhere? Is this the selfishness

that the man his darling granddaughter had once begged to marry would

emotion, Cole

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