Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 383

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When Evangeline saw Walter hurt, the ache that hit her heart was like a sucker punch-unexpected and impossible to shake off.

She questioned herself, was she really nagging for Walter's sake?

However, then, she locked eyes with Walter's, which were deep pools of smoldering anger.

"Evangeline, is there anything else you're dying to tell me?" asked Walter, disbelief etched across his face.

He could not wrap his head around it. She was so gentle when she touched his face, so caring in every little thing she did for him. So why did her words sting like there was not a shred of softness in them? "Huh?" Evangeline blinked, her hand freezing mid-wipe. "Is there supposed to be something else?"

she possibly have to say to Walter at

wooden

they belonged to had already made it to their room. "Evangeline, what

chattering away. "The servants told me this morning you

in front of them, Minnie reached out to Evangeline. "Evangeline, let me do this. You're pregnant, for heaven's sake, with a belly that big. You shouldn't be doing this

she could say anything. Minnie grabbed the towel and started wiping Walter's hand as if it was the most natural thing in

was more cutting than any words, deepening Evangeline's sorrow. She made a silent vow to herself-if she bothered with Walter again, she would be less

to treat a

too much pride, making them look deeper and more meaningful. The slight upturn of her

no actual smoke or gunfire but the tension was thicker than on any battlefield, Minnie's

Evangeline was not scared of a

and Mrs. Gordon of the Gordon family,