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.

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

Cassandra in his arms and nuzzled his thin lips against

her mind if she finds out

her head. She took a step

and held

was admitted into hospital when his

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 was Wanda’s way of getting rid of

fact that the boyfriend who said he loved her

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

dreams were crushed, and she could

the voices in the room intensified, Avery clenched her fists, and her eyes

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

too stupid

allow them to take her

would take back all

wedding ceremony began shortly

hands, Avery walked down the aisle as soft,

vows and put on her

looked puzzled, but

was Mrs. Foster, and she

who used to hold Avonsville in the palm of his

……

Avery was sent to Elliot’s

in the heart of the city’s affluent district

Avery could properly take in the mansion’s layout, Mrs.

drawn to the man on the large bed. She slowly walked over and

features stood out on his chiseled face, and

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

Avery would have never become