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

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

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

never laid eyes on him until now. He’d dismissed him as irrelevant, just some nobody who’d gotten lucky. Therefore, he had no

beside this stranger, the easy familiarity

clenched. A cold

belonged to him would learn the true cost of that mistake. He

through the air, yet Rosanna had become invisible, a ghost

parents and fiancé prostrating themselves before Maia carved through her chest like a serrated blade, each heartbeat

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