Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 558:

“Don’t look at me! Stop looking!” she screamed, her voice cracking under the weight of shame. Her thoughts were a whirl of chaos — no defense, no logic. Just raw, animal panic. All she wanted now was to disappear.

“Rosanna!” Sandra shoved her way forward, face pale, heart pounding. “How could you? How could you do this? You… You’ve disappointed us so much!”

Her mother’s words hit her like stones. Her sobs turned desperate — gut-wrenching. Tears streaked her cheeks as she shook her head, breath stuttering between gasps. “I didn’t… I didn’t do anything. It’s not what it looks like — I’m not the other woman…”

Her words were immediately met with rebuttals from several young women.

“Oh please. Caught red-handed and still pretending to be innocent? You really hooked up with Axell for money, huh?”

“No wonder he offered to invest a hundred million into the Morgans. He’s not backing a business — he’s buying her.”

“What? So that’s what this is? Just a sleazy business arrangement? Disgusting!”

through Rosanna’s last shred of composure. She clamped her hands over her ears and let out a high, splintered scream. “No! I’ve never been anyone’s mistress!” she cried.

the room like a wave, but they simply stared, feeding off the unraveling spectacle. Sandra’s heart lurched at the sight. She lunged forward, eyes red with panic, and shouted over the noise. “Stop it! Stop saying that! Rosanna is a good girl — she’s always been well-behaved! She could never… never be someone’s

buttoning his shirt as if the world weren’t burning around him. He gave a humorless snort, pulled a cigarette from his pocket, and lit it with practiced ease. Smoke curled

he drawled. “Insult me further, and I’ll

𝙍𝖊𝗅𝗂𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝗌𝗈𝗎𝗋𝖼𝖾: g𝓪𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀․ⅽ𝘰𝘮

hadn’t gotten Maia — but Rosanna had been more than enough to scratch the itch. Now, he felt no

was so filled with fury that it made her stagger. The humiliation burned through her veins. She reached for the wall to steady herself, her legs threatening to give

shock giving way to cold amusement, the whispers

If it wasn’t because of Rosanna’s sacrifice,

about the Morgan family project, I thought it was fishy. Since when was the

a trade, huh? If Axell’s divorced, he might as well

— she’s