Unmasking the Heiress by Sisi Yea

Chapter 597

She had caused her grandfather's death!

Tears slid down silently, leaving trails on Evangeline's face, her sobs then just a whisper.

At that very moment, the hospital room door swung open. Walter, his face ashen, appeared at the threshold. Feeling the weight of everyone's stares, he fidgeted uncomfortably, his hand brushing the back of his neck.

"I heard Mr. Foster was ill, so I... I just came..."

"What are you even doing here?" Evangeline shot up from her seat and marched straight toward Walter. "Walter, did you have something to do with my grandpa getting sick? Did you really have to come here and play the concerned visitor?"

If Walter had not been so hung up on Julia, if she was not worried about how heartbroken Cole would be to see Walter being mean to her, why would she have ever spent so much time away from Cole's side?

"Evangeline, what are you doing here?"

Walter was in total disbelief.

Had not Julia taken Evangeline away? He had scoured every corner of Avalon City and had not caught even a glimpse of her, yet there she was? Evangeline laughed, but it sounded hollow.

"If I'm not here, where would I be? Hiding in some abandoned warehouse, waiting to catch you and Julia's private show?"

even muster the courage to think back on the

how could you be so heartless?' she

she had been holding back ignited in

why you're at the hospital, but my grandfather is gone now, and he

leave? I'm Mr. Foster's grandson-in-law, after all," said Walter,

up and locked eyes with Evangeline, hers blazing

faced off

already somber from Cole's death, was suffocating under a

his side, and squared off with Walter, saying, "Walter, we get it, you're trying to be

your happiness first' to Evangeline when he was on his way out.

totally seen through the whole

worked like he was trying to say something, but it took a second before he

'stop right there' kind of wave. "Don't call me that, Mr. Walter Gordon. That's a no-go for me." Holden backed up

to show our guest

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