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.

up a little more. What are we going to do if

think she has a choice now that things have come this far?” Cole said as he held Cassandra in his arms and nuzzled his thin lips against

“Avery will lose her mind if she finds out that you’ve been spending every

felt a violent buzzing in her head. She took a step back and almost lost her

fists around her gown and held back

hospital when his

Avery and forced her to marry into the Foster family 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 this

boyfriend who said he loved her would

on with the wedding. He said that he would marry her once Elliot died, but it was

her hopes and dreams were crushed, and

intensified, Avery clenched her fists, and her eyes turned ice

endured her stepmother and stepsister’s bullying for her father’s sake. She suffered through all kinds of injustices for the

was too

would no longer allow them to take her

would take back all

wedding ceremony began shortly

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

and put on

but she paid

she was Mrs. Foster, and

hold Avonsville in the

……

night, Avery was sent to Elliot’s

the city’s affluent district and

Avery could properly take in the mansion’s layout, Mrs. Cooper had dragged her to

eyes were immediately drawn to the man on the large bed.

his chiseled face, and he exuded a majestic

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

not sick, Avery would have never become