When His Eyes Opened By Simple Silence

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.

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 changes her mind and decides to back out of

you think 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

if she finds out that you’ve been spending every

She took a step back

and held back

father was admitted into hospital when his

it sound like the marriage was for the good of the Tate family, but Avery knew that this was Wanda’s way of

boyfriend who

the wedding. He said that he would marry her once Elliot died, but

hopes and dreams were crushed, and she could

clenched her fists, and

for her father’s sake. She suffered through all kinds

too

would no longer allow them to

would take back

wedding ceremony

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

and put on her own

puzzled, but she

was Mrs. Foster, and she was

new husband, who used to hold Avonsville in the palm of his hand, did not have much

……

Avery was sent to Elliot’s

of the city’s affluent

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

man on the large bed.

stood out on his chiseled face, and he exuded a majestic aura of

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

he were not sick, Avery would have never become