Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 591

Evangeline overheard Julia and Walter's phone call, every word sharp and clear.

However, she knew Walter too well.

Would he really come to that forsaken warehouse for her? If he did, it was probably just for the baby she carried, to clear the air with Trey. The warmth between him and Julia, though, was real.

Tears caught her off guard, blurring her vision until the world was a watery haze.

One tear hung in her sight, and suddenly, she was back in that autumn she loved, by the water's edge.

The golden glow of the harvest season wrapped around everything, painting the water with a picture of plenty.

She never noticed the solitude of autumn or its decline, believing it was beautiful to freeze in her prime if fading was inevitable.

"Take me to Amberstream Riverbank."

The name was as lovely as a masterpiece. The first time Evangeline heard it, she was captivated. She promised herself she would visit.

So one day, she slipped away from her grandfather and uncles, dodged the watchful eyes of her bodyguards, and took a cab to that magical place. That was where her story with Walter really started.

The driver was silent then, just driving.

and more familiar, and the memories from back

...

water, when she spotted a skinny figure

days of swimming lessons under

second, Evangeline did not have time to think. She just instinctively dove

and not as

as the b

and her swimming was

Olympic level. Plus, the boy was already

QUMS

rush to save him, Evangeline accidentally

her, but she ignored the feeling of her lungs screaming for air and fought to drag him to the shore, even though she

a moment to look at the boy

skinny, sure, but there was something undeniably handsome about him. One look and

it not be amazing if she could marry him? Had she just saved her future

across her face, even

wrapped tightly around a little bear

that if she was going to die, at least they would

in the old Foster family mansion, with her grandfather