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?"

the courage to think back on the scene she had stumbled

be so heartless?'

been holding back ignited in a fiery

grandfather is gone now, and he wouldn't want

grandson-in-law, after all," said

looked up and locked eyes

faced off in

from Cole's death, was suffocating under a

side, and squared off with Walter, saying, "Walter, we get it, you're trying to be nice. But let's face it, you just don't belong here with the way things

Walter, he would not have been all 'think about your happiness first' to Evangeline when he was on his way out. He definitely would

Cole had totally seen through

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