When His Eyes Opened (Avery and Elliott)

Chapter 1

It was the day of Avonsville socialite Avery Tate’s wedding, but there was no groom in sight.

The groom, Elliot Foster, had been in a vegetative state since a car crash half a year ago. His doctors said that he was not going to make it until the end of the year.

In a grief-stricken act, Elliot’s mother decided to arrange a marriage for her son before he met his untimely end.

The Fosters were one of the wealthiest families in Avonsville, but no socialite in her right mind would want to marry a man who was knocking on Death’s door.

……

Avery sat at the vanity with her slender figure gracefully dressed in a white wedding gown. With her elegant makeup that brought out the exquisiteness of her pale complexion, she looked as delicate as a budding red rose.

Yet, there was an uneasiness in her almond-shaped eyes.

There was only another 20 minutes until the ceremony, and Avery was frantically sliding her fingers across her phone screen, anxiously awaiting a text message.

She had a boyfriend before she was forced to marry Elliot, and it was a terrible coincidence that he just happened to be Elliot’s nephew, Cole Foster.

However, they had never made their relationship public.

Avery had texted Cole the night before in hopes that they would escape Avonsville together and elope. She had stayed up all night waiting, but she never got a reply.

She could wait no longer.

Avery rose from her seat, clenched her hand around her phone and made up an excuse to leave the room.

She hurried down the corridor and froze in her tracks as she walked past one of the rooms.

Avery heard the sound of her sister, Cassandra giggling delightedly through the slightly ajar room door.

bet my dumb sister is still waiting for you to go to her, Cole! Maybe you should go and butter her up a little more. What are we going to do if she

now that things have come this far?” Cole said as he held Cassandra in his arms and nuzzled his thin lips against her neck. “Even if she tries to back out now, the guards will drag her down the altar by the

if she finds out

head. She took a step back and

her gown and held back the

father was admitted into hospital when

so she could reap the benefits. She had made it sound like the marriage was for the good of the Tate family, but Avery knew that

the boyfriend who said he loved her would turn around and

the wedding. He said that he would marry

were crushed, and

in the room intensified, Avery clenched her fists,

her father’s sake. She suffered through all kinds of injustices for the sake of

too

she would no longer allow them

would take back all that was

ceremony began shortly

her wedding gown with a bouquet of flowers in her hands, Avery walked down the aisle as soft,

vows and put on her

looked puzzled, but she paid

she was Mrs. Foster, and she

her new husband, who used to hold Avonsville in the palm

……

Avery was

of the city’s affluent district

take in the mansion’s layout, Mrs. Cooper had dragged

on the large bed.

face, and

from spending all that time indoors, but his handsome face made one unable to take their eyes off of