Chapter 1

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.

you should go and butter her up a little more. What

said as he held Cassandra in his arms and nuzzled his thin lips against

mind if she finds out that you’ve been spending every night with

a violent buzzing in her head. She took a step back

her fists around her gown and held back the tears

hospital

Tate, turned on Avery and forced her to marry into the Foster 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

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

to carry on with the wedding. He said that he would marry her once Elliot died, but it was all

were crushed,

the room intensified, Avery clenched

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

too

she would no longer allow them to take

would take back all

wedding ceremony

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

her own vows and put on

but

Mrs. Foster,

used to hold Avonsville in the palm of his hand,

……

night, Avery was sent to Elliot’s

located in the heart of the city’s affluent

layout, Mrs. Cooper had

on the large bed.

his chiseled face, and

but his handsome

were not sick, Avery would have never become

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