Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 572:

Maia’s heart ached. “So that’s how your life ended up like this?”

To keep himself alive, he’d turned into the reckless playboy everyone gossiped about — the man who drowned his pain in parties, fights, and chaos. The further he fell, the safer he was.

“It was the only way I could survive.” Chris’s gaze met Maia’s. “Do you see me as pathetic?”

A hush settled between them.

Maia stared at him, and a deep pain surfaced in her eyes. So everything Chris had said before was true!

The reason he had acted wild and aimless wasn’t that he wanted to. By doing so, he wanted to put Kolton at ease and avoid becoming a target.

Getting into Ocktin University, a globally renowned institution, proved his real ability. But growing up in the Cooper family, surrounded by bitter competition, he’d been forced to hide his potential — trading his future for safety and letting people call him useless.

help Chris, would he have spent his

that growing up in a rich family didn’t guarantee happiness; it came with its own share of

was gentle. “No one who fights to survive is pathetic in my eyes. You don’t have to worry — I won’t let this happen again.” She made up her mind right then. She would do whatever it took to see Chris become the

with a tenderness that softened his expression. “Don’t worry. I’m not going to let it happen again either.” For a moment, an unspoken promise

A spark lit up Maia’s eyes as an idea came

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herself, and her mentor

a reputation for loving difficult and unusual cases. Without a doubt, he would be

gaze gentle. “I’ll do whatever

and then Chris’ unfinished painting — the one where his mother’s face was missing. She turned to

realized that I can’t remember clearly many people and events

that Chris might one day lose all of

the remaining bullet fragment stayed lodged in his brain, there