When His Eyes Opened

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.

and butter her up a little more. What are we going to do if she changes her mind and decides to back out of

nuzzled his thin lips against her neck. “Even if she tries to back out

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

felt a violent buzzing in her head. She took a

her fists around her gown and held back

father was admitted into hospital when his company

family so she could reap the benefits. 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

the fact that the boyfriend who said he

the wedding. He said that he would marry her once Elliot died, but it was all a huge

and dreams were

voices in the room intensified, Avery clenched her fists, and her eyes turned

stepmother and stepsister’s bullying for her father’s sake. She

too stupid and

would no longer allow them to

back all

wedding ceremony began

flowers in her hands, Avery walked down the aisle as soft, romantic music played in the

own vows and put

looked puzzled, but she paid

she was Mrs. Foster,

who used to hold Avonsville in the palm of

……

was

in the heart of the city’s affluent district and

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

drawn to the man on the large

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

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

sick, Avery would have never become