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

held Cassandra in his arms and nuzzled his thin

then said, “Avery will lose her mind if she

buzzing in her head. She took a step

gown and held back the tears in

admitted into hospital when his company went

it sound like the marriage

expected, was the fact that the boyfriend who

carry on with the wedding. He said that he would marry her once

her hopes and dreams were

in the room intensified, Avery clenched her fists, and

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

too

would no longer allow them to take her for

back all

ceremony began shortly

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

vows and put on her

looked puzzled, but she paid them

now on, she was Mrs. Foster, and she

Avonsville in the palm of his hand, did not have

……

Avery was

located in the heart of the city’s

the mansion’s layout, Mrs.

man on the large bed. She slowly walked over and carefully

chiseled face, and

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

he were not sick, Avery would

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