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?"

could not even muster the courage to think

how could you be so heartless?'

been holding

don't care 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

locked eyes with Evangeline, hers blazing

off

room, already somber from Cole's death, was suffocating

trying to be nice. But let's face it,

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

Cole had totally seen through the whole Walter-and-Evangeline

he was trying to say something, but it took a second before he could actually

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

to show our

closed

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