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.

to witness his worst nightmare: Maia sliding into another man’s car

had cut off his direct path, he’d sprinted around the building’s perimeter, bursting through a fire exit

from Vince’s face as the scene unfolded before him. Fury blazed in his eyes while his hands shook with barely contained rage. It was the same bastard who’d stolen Maia from the

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

that Maia settled so comfortably beside this stranger, the easy familiarity between them

white as his fists clenched. A cold promise formed in

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

through the air, yet Rosanna had become

Maia carved through her chest like a serrated

him through the shadows, clinging to a fragile hope. Perhaps witnessing Maia’s cold rejection of him might crack open a door she thought had