Evelyn's povI sighed heavily as my stepbrother stood stubbornly as a barricade in the staircase then crossing my hands I hissed at him. "Just what do you have to explain to me?" He withdrew a little bit at the acidity of my voice but came forward again with a new confidence that he plucked from who knows where."Evelyn I know you probably think I'm a monster but I never wanted things to get like this…your father is a good man and…"The more I was listening to him talk the more my blood pressure was shooting up, I couldn't care any less for whatever excuses he had he still knew what his mother was trying to do and yet he didn't have the courage to go against her all he could just do was slimy come over to me and have heartedly talk about how he didn't want to all of this to happen when it was all happening for his favor."Kelvin I don't want to hear anything else from you…" I growled trying to push my way forward and then he shot out his hand to grab my arm but before he could make
Evelyn's povThere was a pit in my stomach as I was walking back to the meeting room, part of me didn't even want to show up again after the break I felt like I had already lost like I had let my father down…but Kian was encouraging me not with words but with his presence with his fingers wrapped in my own as we continue to walk towards the direction of the meeting room.Finally, we were seated again in our previous positions and soon every other member of the elder council including my stepmother, this time she brought her son Kelvin along and he looked like he was being frog marched into the place but I didn't bother to divide my attention to him.In the end, he was a little bit less than a puppet that was just being pulled at its strings by his mother and nothing else, it didn't look like he had many bright ideas in his head and just went ahead with whatever his mother suggested to him as for my stepmother she sat with such confidence her legs crossed and her shoulders held high wi
Chapter 26Evelyn's povThe final decision of the council members was like a bomb falling into the middle of the room and exploding right in my face the composure that I tried to keep with my expression immediately broke and my lips wobbled as I searched for the right word but found nothing while tears were burning in the back of my eyes.And with that, the meeting came to a close with me still fixed to my chair like a statue the members of the elders council avoided looking at me as they made their way out of the meeting room there was only my stepmother shooting me a dirty look while still pretentiously wiping her eyes with her handkerchief her son followed behind her seemingly dragging his feet his eyes passed me for a moment with his needless pity soon enough I was all alone.Or at least I would be if he could just leave too.I sat there for half an hour saying nothing at all, still keeping the same position from the moment when I heard that announcement. Finally, he squeezed my f
Chapter 27 Evelyn's pov"You are not alone…" he assured me in his deep and resonant voice and I didn't even realize when more tears started coming out of my eyes but this time it wasn't just purely out of sadness there was a feeling of relief that truly, I wasn't all alone.The next day I got a call from the hospital, and I would have gone there anyway even if I had not gotten that call initially. I planned to go by myself but then I remembered the conversation that I had with my contract husband at that point while I stood in the mirror brushing my hair and raising my eyebrows. How far could I really trust this man that I had only known for a couple of weeks?I allowed another stroke to pass through my hair as I remembered the council members that had immediately withdrawn their help and I had known some of those people since I was a child. There was no doubt about it that I would just have to trust him now more out of desperation than anything else.So I informed him that I was goi
Evelyn's povAs I saw my stepmother approaching I knew that the alteration that was about to go down could not happen so immediately I stood between her and my contract husband like a world wedding myself between them her face deepened in disapproval.But it was at that very moment that the doctor stepped out of his office and he looked at the three of us with surprise immediately my stepmother had to put on her mask of being a concerned wife who was simply pushed to the wall to make a choice of letting go of our husband she had her handkerchief at her eyes quicker than I could even blink and looking over to the doctor."Doctor I was hoping that I would be able to catch you, we need to discuss something very important,"Since she was finally out of our hair I looked at my contract husband and he seemed to be looking in her direction. His eyes hardened up but then I held his hand and his attention was immediately brought back to me again. Then I signed out for him that this was our cha
Evelyn POVArriving back in the pack house did not lighten the weight that was resting heavily on my chest, in fact, it only seemed to be intensified by the familiar surroundings that I had so many memories of my father seeming to play with me and I shook my head reminding myself once again that he was still alive and he was one of the strongest Men I knew he would definitely wake up from that hospital bed.Wouldn't he?Was I just being delusional because I couldn't accept letting go of my Father? Was there a chance that the last conversation we had with each other was really truly going to be the last one just thinking about it was enough to have hot tears bubbling up in my eyelids and I quickly had to wipe them away with the back of my hand watching Kian to see if he had noticed.He looked at me with a warm smile and didn't say anything, redness came up to my cheeks. All I had been trying to do since I met him was hide just how vulnerable I was but somehow he still managed to see m
Evelyn's pov“Princess Evelyn…" Jones, my lawyer, called my name as if he was waking up from a very deep and very unpleasant sleep. "I want to be honest with you…it's quite unfortunate…but there's not much that can be done…"He said to me and my heart sank deeper, this was the first time that I had been to his office since he arranged my court wedding and even though things had been tough I was hoping for some good news."Nothing at all?" I inquired rather desperately, leaning more on his table until I was almost resting my entire arm on it. His response was to shake his head sadly and look at me with his eyes dipped with pity and my stomach twisted as a dry smile cracked my lips.Even as a princess that I was, people were either looking down on me with pity or annoyance."... there's already the issue with your assets and if your husband is going to help, your father's bills might…" he kept talking and I watched his lips move but I wasn't catching on to anything that he was saying a
Evelyn's povI was not prepared for the amount of phone calls that my phone was going to be bombarded with after my announcement to Kian, he was calling me like his life depended on my response and then blasting me with concerned texts at the same vigor.He wanted to know where I was so that he would come and pick me up and we could talk but I bit my lip and hardened my heart to all of his attempts…I knew that if I were to agree to that he would immediately be able to convince me not to call off our contract marriage.As the taxi stopped at a red light, I thought about the more humiliating fact that I was just that miserable and lonely right now…and I didn't want to let him go…it was pathetic, I felt like a child who didn't want to let go of their parent's hand.But I couldn't keep holding on to him even when I knew that I was drowning and taking him down with me as well, that would be so selfish and cruel after all the good he has done.Eventually, I got down from the car and entered