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.

for you all this time, how

closed without a sound, and as she looked back, she saw

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

would have the answer. Yale, the

advice.

the turmoil swirling in her heart and offer the guidance she desperately

downcast, yet looking at him with eyes full of hope. "Look, Evie," Yale said, his voice as steady

enough to read her mind. Why

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

you know it, you buried under a mountain of

of

whisper, trailing off, ike a stone causing ripples across

heart

did not need him to say more. She