Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 691:

Chris reached out, his fingers brushing gently against her cheek. Something tender and pained flickered across his features.

He dropped his cigarette into a nearby trash can and opened the car door.

“Get in. Those bodyguards won’t hold them back much longer.”

Without hesitation, Maia pulled Pattie into the car with her, Maxwell climbing in right behind them.

The moment the door clicked shut, Chris pressed the accelerator to the floor. The car shot forward like a released arrow.

just in time to witness his worst nightmare: Maia sliding into

he’d sprinted around the building’s perimeter, bursting through

contained rage. It was the same bastard who’d

eyes on him until now. He’d dismissed him as irrelevant, just some nobody who’d gotten lucky. Therefore, he had no clue that his rival was Chris Cooper, the so-called worthless bastard son of the

beside this stranger, the easy familiarity between

fists clenched. A cold promise formed in his mind,

enough to steal what belonged to him would learn the true cost of that mistake. He wouldn’t

venue, scattered curses still echoed through the air, yet Rosanna had become

themselves before Maia carved through her

something desperate stirred within her. She slipped after him through the shadows, clinging to a fragile hope. Perhaps witnessing Maia’s