Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 686:

“Damn, I’ve never felt this mad. If I saw Rosanna right now, I’d slap her!”

“A thief and a liar at such a young age? And you had the nerve to frame someone else? Rosanna, where’s your sense of decency?”

“Poor Maia. She was just a pawn in their twisted game. Four years in prison, and now she’s being dragged back into the Morgan family mess? Thinking about how trapped she must have felt is enough to make me sick.”

Right then, Richard felt like the life had been sucked right out of him. “This isn’t real…” he whispered. His voice trembled as he tried to make sense of what he saw. “It can’t be Rosanna. She couldn’t have done it… How could she?”

The girl he had spent years shielding and defending had shattered every illusion.

And yet it was Maia — the same girl he dismissed, ridiculed, and treated as less than family — who turned out to be blameless. His knees buckled under the weight of the truth, and he nearly collapsed.

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while her trembling hand clamped over her mouth. She muttered in disbelief,

lived in her eyes had vanished, and the realization hit her with brutal

outsider and humiliated time and again, was innocent. Meanwhile, Rosanna,

once, making her kneel, repent, and take the blame

began to weigh heavily on her soul. Only now did Sandra grasp the painful truth — they had spent years shielding the monster they

they slowly lifted, eventually hiding her face behind

a truth so brutal it cut like a blade, leaving both Richard and Sandra emotionally

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stiffly in his seat, completely

at Maia on stage became