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

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 her neck. “Even if she tries to back out now, the guards will drag her down the altar by the

her mind if she finds out that you’ve been

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

her fists around her gown and held

into hospital when

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

that the boyfriend who

wonder Cole urged her to carry on with the wedding. He said that he would marry her once Elliot died, but

and dreams were crushed, and she could barely

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

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

was too stupid and

no longer allow them

take back

ceremony

flowers in her hands, Avery walked down

said her own vows and put on

looked puzzled, but she paid them

was Mrs. Foster, and she

husband, who used to hold Avonsville in the palm

……

Avery was sent to Elliot’s

the city’s affluent district and

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

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

features stood out on his chiseled face,

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

not sick, Avery would have never become his