Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 692:

She put on that familiar pitiful and aggrieved look. “Vince, I—”

His voice cracked like a whip before she could weave her spell. “Get lost!”

Ice crystallized in Vince’s stare as he wrenched his arm free from her desperate grasp. “How dare you show your face to me? Everything that’s destroyed between Maia and me, every shattered piece, that’s your masterpiece! You’re nothing but a thief, a liar, absolutely revolting! Disappear from my life, and if you ever poison my life again, I will give you a lesson you can never forget!”

His shove sent her tumbling backward, her knees striking the cold concrete with a sickening crack.

“Vince, please don’t walk away from me. Can’t you see past this anger? I know I’ve failed you, failed us both. But I can transform myself, become everything you need. Please, don’t cast me aside like I’m nothing!”

Rosanna dragged herself across the unforgiving ground toward him, her pride dissolving into desperate, clawing need.

trembling fingers could graze the fabric of his pants, Vince’s voice sliced through the air

your filthy hands

strode away, his retreating figure carved from stone, offering no backward

he had been, her fingers grasping at

was slipping through her fingers like water, but

was gone, forever leaving

violent tremor seized Rosanna’s

every

gazed upon her with such

blade finding its mark, carving deep into

her lips drained of color, knuckles blanching white

down her cheeks in steady streams, turning the world into a