Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 847:

With a troubled expression, Kolton turned to the rain-smeared window, weighed down by a storm of his own.

“What’s your game, Maia?” he muttered. “Do you really believe that dragging Chris — a pitiful piece in this game — will be enough to take on me and the entire Cooper Group?”

“Just who are you really working for?” Kolton asked under his breath, his voice laced with suspicion. A nagging sense told him that Maia wasn’t acting alone — someone else was pulling the strings from behind the scenes.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning cut through the darkness, revealing the cold precision etched across Kolton’s face.

Caution had always been his way of life. Every move was weighed, every risk calculated. Success was never left to chance.

However, that mindset had earned Kolton more than a few enemies.

Because of that, identifying who might be supporting Maia was no easy task. Resting his chin on his hand, Kolton began running through the names and scenarios in his head.

had no reason to deceive him. Therefore, what Shiloh had said should be true — Maia

came Maia’s family background. She wasn’t even blood-related to the Morgan family, and Kolton couldn’t recall doing anything that might have stirred resentment from Morgan family

identity of Maia’s real parents — why had he never thought to investigate that? What if they were connected to someone he had killed in the past? Driven

Maia’s biological parents!”

𝖀𝖕𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖘 ⲋ𝛼𝓁ⲛ𝓸ⴝ𝖊𝓁𝓈﹒ⅽ𝗈𝗆

Maia and Chris reached the

quick farewell before

elevator, an

number and the doors slid shut, Chris

muttered, his voice low and sincere.

by the sudden closeness, she hesitated before slowly lifting her head

out of his hold. “Since when did