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.

to her, Cole! Maybe you should go and butter her up a little more. What

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 down the altar by

said, “Avery will lose her mind if

violent buzzing in her head. She took a step back and almost lost

and held back the

hospital when

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

least expected, was the fact that the boyfriend who said he loved

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

her hopes and dreams were crushed, and she could

room intensified, Avery clenched her fists,

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

was too stupid

she would no longer allow them

would take back all

wedding ceremony

her hands, Avery walked down the

said her own vows and put on her own wedding

puzzled, but

now on, she was Mrs. Foster, and she was

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

……

Avery was sent to Elliot’s

the city’s affluent district

layout, Mrs. Cooper had dragged her to

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

features stood out on his chiseled face, and

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

Avery would