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?"

have to

heels on the wooden floor outside grew louder and more insistent, step

had already made

With quick steps, she sidled up to Walter, all the while chattering away. "The servants told me this morning you were back, and I could barely believe it." Minnie acted as if she belonged there, and when she

reached out to Evangeline. "Evangeline, let me do this. You're pregnant, for heaven's sake, with a belly that

was the most natural thing in the world. Evangeline stayed silent, watching the emotionless Walter, even as the

indifference 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

our Walter, completely clueless about how to treat a lady. At the end of the

Walter's hands until they were spotless. Her eyes sparkled with too much pride, making them

or gunfire but the tension was thicker than on any

Evangeline was not scared

Mrs. Gordon of the Gordon family, she had seen it all.