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.

go to her, Cole! Maybe you should go and butter her up a little more. What are we going to do if she changes her mind and decides to back out

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

lose her mind if she finds out that you’ve been spending

a violent buzzing in her head. She took a

her fists around her gown and held back the tears in

father was admitted into hospital

on Avery and forced her to marry into the Foster family so she could reap the benefits. She had made it sound like

the boyfriend who said

on with the wedding. He said that

dreams were crushed, and she

the voices in the room intensified, Avery clenched

years, she endured her stepmother and stepsister’s bullying for her father’s sake. She suffered through all kinds of

too stupid

would no longer allow them to take

take back

ceremony

wedding gown with a bouquet of flowers in her hands, Avery

vows and put on

but she

on, she was Mrs. Foster,

to hold Avonsville in the palm of his

……

Avery was sent to Elliot’s

located in the heart of the city’s affluent district and cost over 150 million

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

the large bed. She slowly

deep-set features stood out on his chiseled face, and he exuded

indoors, but his handsome face made one unable to

he were not sick, Avery would have never become