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.

fingers could graze the fabric of his pants, Vince’s

filthy hands away

strode away, his retreating figure carved from stone, offering no backward glance at the woman

he had been, her fingers grasping

anchor herself to this man who was slipping through her fingers like water, but her desperate reach met only the void of his

forever leaving

violent tremor seized Rosanna’s entire

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such tender devotion now wore only

its mark, carving deep into her chest and twisting mercilessly through the tender flesh

lips drained of color, knuckles blanching white where her fists pressed against the

cheeks in steady streams, turning the