Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 617:

She understood exactly what to expect. Since Richard had gone out of his way to see her, he would definitely follow her and wouldn’t just let her go alone.

A grumbling protest followed. “Maia! Aren’t you even going to give me a hand?” Richard called after her, scrambling to his feet and rushing to keep up.

They settled into a booth at the café on the ground floor.

During the walk over, Richard had not stopped talking for a moment. He harped on about how the Morgan family had taken Maia in and raised her for seventeen years, only for her to announce online that she wanted nothing more to do with them. He insisted that she had shattered his heart.

Richard raised his voice with every complaint, making sure that anyone within earshot could catch every word. Even as the waiter approached to take their order, he kept at it. “Maia, are you hearing a word I’m saying? The Morgan family needs help. You can’t turn your back on us! If it weren’t for us, you’d be nothing!”

Maia closed the menu and addressed the flustered waiter with a steady voice. “We’ll have two lattes.”

her gaze cold as frost. “It’s not typical of you to throw away

tirade any longer. If they were going to talk, Maia would rather cut

and brought his palm down on the table with

called me ungrateful, didn’t you? If that’s how you see it, what makes you think I will

birthday celebration? Isn’t that worth anything? Now the Morgans are drowning, and you’re just living it

𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁

laugh escaped Maia. The truth was plain

in the booth, his tie askew and all dignity gone. She answered him

so fiercely that he nearly jumped up to slap Maia. But just as he moved, a waiter appeared with

“Sir, could you