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.

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

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

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

her head. She took a step back

gown and held back the tears in

hospital

reap the benefits. She had made it sound like

boyfriend who said he loved her would turn

was no wonder Cole urged her to carry on with the wedding. He said that he would marry her once Elliot died, but it was all a

her hopes and dreams were crushed, and she

intensified, Avery clenched her fists, and her

stepsister’s bullying for her father’s sake. She suffered through all kinds of injustices for the sake of the

too stupid and

them to take her

would take back

ceremony began shortly

in her hands, Avery walked down

and put on her

crowd looked puzzled, but she

she was Mrs. Foster, and she

in the palm of

……

night, Avery was sent to Elliot’s

was located in the heart of the city’s

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

were immediately drawn to the man on the large bed. She slowly walked over

face, and he exuded a majestic

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

not sick, Avery would have never become his