Chapter 269

Walter cut off Evangeline's caution with a cocky eyebrow lift. "Evangeline, you really think I'd have sleazy thoughts about you?"

The kind of thoughts a husband had for his wife was considered sleazy? Were they not just part of the deal?

For Evangeline, however, those words twisted into something else entirely as they reached her ears.

She was just kidding herself all along. Walter had never really been into her. What could he possibly want with her if not just to blow off some steam?

She raised her eyes slowly, meeting the gaze of her uncles.

Holden, the most fiercely protective of the bunch, had tears welling up in his eyes. "Evie, if you're going to lie to Grandpa now, you've got to be ready to keep that lie going until his last day. Are you... sure about this?"

Why did the Foster family's untouchable, regal princess keep getting tangled up with a guy like Walter, the town troublemaker?

Holden wanted to convince Evangeline to shut down Walter's nonsense, to kick him out of he