Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 371

*Grandpa Cole must be worried sick by now..."

Evangeline had been away from home for so long that she could not help but think that Cole must be beside himself with worry.

Holden gave her shoulder a reassuring pat. "Relax, Evie. Yale and I had Informed him you were safe as soon as we found you. He's at home right now, waiting for you to come back." The thought of going home made Evangeline's recently calmed heart race again.

She could not possibly tell Cole the truth about today's chaos, and even though she had braced herself for Walter's betrayal with Minnie, it still stung when it happened.

Facing Cole with all those tangled feelings would only make him worry, would it not?

"Um... Uncle Yale, could you drop me off at Emerald of the Highlands instead? I... I'm not ready to face Grandpa Cole just yet."

It was not that she did not want to see him. She just did not know how to explain everything without Cole seeing right through her.

immediately against the idea. "Evie, after searching for you all this time, how can you even

opened and closed without a sound, and as she looked back, she saw Yale's disappointed expression. She could not bring herself to

letting it affect her mood to the point of avoiding Cole... Confessing that to her uncles, who were so protective of her, would only break

Yale, what do you think?" Feeling trapped, she turned to Yale, hoping he would have the answer. Yale, the oldest and by far the

advice.

could grasp the turmoil swirling in her heart and

younger brother in the rearview mirror-annoyed, downcast, yet looking at him with eyes full of hope. "Look, Evie," Yale said, his voice as steady as if he were discussing the weather

to read her mind.

never leaving the road ahead, but a shadow of doubt flickered in his

another, and before you know it, you buried under a mountain

of

were a whisper, trailing off, ike a stone causing

heart

to say more. She got the