Unmasking the Heiress (Evangeline and Walte)
Bitten Once Shy Forever 321

Chapter 321

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Walter tried to sort out his messy feelings, thinking he was being sincere with his apology.

It was a shame, really. Walter was earnest, but his words danced around the fact that he should be saying

sorry.

Evangeline could not catch a whiff of realness in his so-called sincerity. It felt more like he was just going through the motions.

"No big deal. I've been over it for ages." Evangeline tossed the words out without a second thought, her eyes drifting to the horizon, all cool and confident.

Walter was not the one who had been put through the wringer. He was not the one who had been treated like dirt. How could he, the guy who started the whole mess, ever get what she went through? Evangeline's chill vibe was all because she had seen the real Walter and decided he was not worth the drama. Why bother caring about a guy she did not even want anymore?

Walter was not clueless, though. If Evangeline was bringing this up, she was obviously still hung up on it.

Even so, she had wrapped up her response so neatly. He was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

"If that's how it is, can we just drop this whole thing and move on, please?" He threw the question out there, testing the waters.

He had lost his cool once and hurt Evangeline. He truly regretted it.

However, if she was willing to let bygones be bygones, he would go out of his way to be nice, so much so that she would forget all the not-so-nice stuff and forgive the hurt he had caused. "Yeah, sure." Evangeline was oddly agreeable today, and with those two little words, Walter felt like he had finally hit the jackpot.

Unfortunately for him, she was not done talking.

"I've picked up the divorce papers. We're done, and everything is wiped clean. No need to bring up this kind of gross stuff ever again.

Nobody liked to dig up memories of getting hurt.

Evangeline was convinced that if she could just keep her distance from Walter, the dark cloud of their shared history would eventually lift from her memory.

Walter, blindsided by her resolve, could not fathom her desire to escape.

"Forget about it. I'm never going to agree to a divorce!" he declared. He had made promises to Cole, and his feelings for Evangeline had taken root too deeply to simply walk away.

At the heart of it all, Alex was to blame. Alex knew Evangeline was off-limits, his brother's wife, yet he could not resist meddling!

Walter felt a rush of anger, but it was not even about Evangeline, who stood before him, begging for a

divorce.

"What's the point of hanging onto our marriage certificate when things have come to this? We might as

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Chapter 321

well set each other free," she argued, her voice heavy with resignation. Beyond her own tangled emotions, there was the business between the Fosters and the Gordons to consider. Their families were already at each other's throats because of their failed marriage, and she could not bear the thought of causing more.

trouble.

She wanted to end things with Walter amicably.

"And let's face it, you've got Minnie," Evangeline added sarcastically. "She's head over heels for you. would be cruel not to give her a chance, right?"

Saying it out loud, Evangeline was struck by her own indifference. Once, she might have described her feelings for Walter as deep and unwavering. However, the thought of him with another woman at this moment left her feeling... nothi