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.

dumb sister 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 do if she

held Cassandra in his arms and nuzzled his thin lips against her

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

She took

fists around her gown and held

hospital

Foster family so she could reap the benefits. She had made it sound like the marriage was for the

expected, was the fact that the boyfriend who said

no wonder Cole urged her to carry on with the wedding. He said that he would marry her once Elliot

of her hopes and dreams were crushed, and she could

room intensified, Avery clenched her fists, and her

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

was too stupid

them to take her for a

take back all that was

ceremony began

hands, Avery walked

her own vows and put

puzzled, but she paid them no

now on, she was Mrs. Foster,

the palm

……

was sent to

heart of the city’s affluent district and

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

large bed. She slowly walked over and carefully watched his

out on his chiseled face,

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

not sick, Avery would

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