Chapter 216

Evangeline checked the time on her phone and frowned.

It was way past late, and Walter was still grinding away at work. Did he forget he was nursing an injury?

"How's Walter's injury doing?"

They were on the brink of divorce, so whether Walter was kicking or not should not matter to her. However, his injury was no ordinary scrape, and if she did not at least pretend to care, it felt sort of apathetic.

What she did not realize was that her words just jogged David's memory.

The boss playing knight in shining armor for Evangeline? That had to up the odds of a reconciliation, right?

With that, he started to spice up the tale, mixing a bit of truth with a healthy dose of fiction.

"He ignored the doctor's orders and checked himself out of the hospital. He spent the whole night by a patient's bedside, no rest for the weary.

"And talk about timing, today the big shots showed up and raised hell. I'm not sure about how the boss is holding up, because he's tight-lipped. But ever since the