Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

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Without a hint of warmth, Kolton gave a curt nod.

“Keep buying up our shares. Coordinate with the financial institutions to push out favorable news.”

“I’ll handle it,” Claudius answered, casting a quick look at the sinking stock price. Deep down, he was torn. Maia’s name had finally been cleared, and that should have brought him some comfort. He had even thought this might convince his father to let him chase after her.

But Mariana had to get involved, parading her so-called cleverness by leaking that banquet video. The aftermath was catastrophic.

The chaos Mariana unleashed was dragging down the entire Cooper Group, and Claudius was seething. He had wanted to track her down that morning and demand to know what she was thinking, risking so much just to stop him from being with Maia.

Instead, Mariana had already caught an early flight to another country, Sceibar, leaving him with nothing but anger and a mountain of work. He had spent the entire morning scrambling to scrape together enough capital to hold the company together.

Kolton’s voice snapped Claudius out of his thoughts, cold as ever.

Maia, my position hasn’t changed. She’ll still have

went stiff, realizing that his father had seen

Quickly, he replied,

care of it. I’ll

could cut glass. He knew Claudius was

came first, a lesson he had hammered into him

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deeper than the free-falling stock price.

the company. Tonight, however, a shipment valued at

from their security division had been chosen to handle it as the

set up a decoy vessel to draw out the crew responsible for

dared to try again, he was ready to make sure that none