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.

you all this time, how can you even

and as she looked back, she saw Yale's disappointed expression.

point of avoiding Cole... Confessing that to her uncles, who were so

Yale,

advice.

grasp the turmoil swirling in her heart

a glimpse of his 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 instead of her personal drama, "you should go see your grandpa." "Why?" Evangeline

enough to read her mind. Why

was trapped in his throat, his eyes never leaving the road

to another, and before you know

of

a whisper, trailing off, ike a stone causing ripples across the

heart

him to say more. She got