When His Eyes Opened (full chapter)

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.

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 changes her mind and decides

choice 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 finds out that

She took a step back and almost lost her

gown and held back the tears in her

father was admitted into hospital when his company

could reap the benefits. She had made it sound like the

was least expected, was the fact that the boyfriend who said

urged her to carry on with the wedding. He said

hopes and dreams were crushed, and she could

room intensified, Avery clenched her

sake. She suffered through all kinds of injustices for the sake of

was too stupid

would no longer allow them to take her for a

back

ceremony

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

own vows and put on her

puzzled, but she

Mrs. Foster, and she was

used to hold Avonsville in the palm of his hand, did not have much

……

night, Avery was

in the heart of the city’s affluent

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

immediately drawn to the man on the large bed. She slowly

out on his chiseled face, and

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

Avery would have never become