Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 628:

He arranged the evidence with precision: Maia’s acclaimed designs on one side, a foreign designer’s eerily similar work on the other.

Larkin’s eyes narrowed with skepticism, but curiosity won. He slipped on his reading glasses and retrieved his magnifying glass, scrutinizing each detail.

His weathered features shifted from doubt to astonishment, his hands beginning to tremble. “Where did you acquire these? The similarities are unmistakable, practically identical! Can you prove these predate MCN’s releases?”

Richard’s smile turned predatory. “Absolutely.”

He reached for his phone with flourish, swiping through his photo gallery before extending the phone toward Larkin. “Mr. Dixon, examine the timestamps in the bottom right corner of each image. Every single design predates MCN’s releases — not by weeks, but by a full six months!”

Larkin’s eyes went wide, the blood draining from his weathered face. If Richard’s claims held water, MCN’s prized reputation for innovation would crumble into dust overnight.

be branded as fraudsters, and Eileen’s name

career would be finished. But something nagged at Larkin’s experienced mind.

phone, clearing his throat. “You say you’re from the Morgan family,

beneath

behavior confirmed by inmate

of Lark’s shares in exchange for this damning evidence. Plus, you’d have the full backing of

expression hardened, his jaw

of this man! This man was trying to extort shares from the company he’d built with his own hands! Lark was his legacy, his life’s masterpiece. Not a

has your

I’m afraid I have no interest in your so-called evidence.

two guards flanked him and