Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 546:

The gesture, so formal and deliberate, carried the weight of aristocracy. It silenced the room like a thunderclap.

Even Claudius, ever composed, furrowed his brow in thought. Whoever Mr. M was… he had just shaken the foundations of Wront’s elite.

“Could Mr. M be royalty?” someone finally whispered, cracking the hush. It was a quiet murmur that sparked a chain reaction of sudden realization.

“I thought it was odd that man wore white gloves,” another said. “But it makes sense now. He was handling the gemstone from the beginning — and the men around him weren’t gangsters. They moved like trained bodyguards. Elite ones. You do not send men like that for just money. Mr. M isn’t some local kingpin. He’s on another level.”

The murmurs spun a new image in their minds. Mr. M, no longer a shadowy underworld figure, now loomed like foreign royalty — unreachable, untouchable. And Maia? She was the link. The only link.

“Miss Watson,” a plump man in a tailored suit stepped forward and said with an awkward smile, “my daughter spoke out of turn earlier. Please, pay her no mind.” He gave his daughter a stern glare as she shrank behind him.

Others followed like dominoes. “Miss Watson, if you ever need anything—anything at all—from the Lander family, consider it done.”

desperation inside him. He took a hesitant step toward Maia, only to watch her glide past him without

as he reached the door. “Wait — sir, please,” she called. “Do I know you?” There was something about him, a shadow of familiarity

turned and paused, then slowly shook his head. In one swift motion, he

He was a foreigner.

begins

him, now certain she had never seen

is there anything else you wish to ask?”

again. The more they observed, the more convinced they became: Mr. M had to be foreign royalty. Maia hesitated, then asked the question that had been burning in her chest.

meet.” With a

there, watching the convoy disappear into the

M be

resourceful, and an unmatched mentor — but she had never mentioned employing someone like this

sent her a gift