Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 444

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Walter figured that even if Evangeline did not adore him as she did Alex, the fact that they shared a child had to mean she felt something for him, right?

"Hahaha!" Alex's laughter rang out, unrestrained and so full of mirth that he almost cried.

He let go of Walter's collar, stepping back to put some space between them.

"Walter, do you even buy that excuse?"

Before Walter could muster a response, Alex's icy voice cut through again, "Do you really not know why Evie kept the child? Cole might be clueless, but you? Quit lying to yourself, okay? My dear brother!" The words 'dear brother dripped with a warmth that did not reach Walter's ears; all he heard was biting

sarcasm.

Alex's probing questions lingered, but the truth had always been buried in Walter's heart.

Cole's illness. If it were not for that,

recall how he left Alex's

trying to float to where Evangeline was, only to face the harsh truth that he

the man who prided himself

that gnawed at his heart, the kind that made him wish he could just rip it out to stop the

off that whole mess, was not as

record time. He poured himself a glass of ice water and downed it in one go, the chill blasting straight to his

in Alex's mind like a scene from some classic film,

echoing sharply in the

focus, the earlier panic fading as if it had been a bad

not know what he had, Walter who owed him. So why did Alex

could be so brutally

best, and that his own broody nature was not exactly winning him any popularity contests. However, he did not ask for

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