Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 870:

That simple promise cut through her panic like sunlight breaking the dark.

Neither spoke again. Vince had lost all touch with reason, gambling every innocent life on his obsession. He never once paused to consider what came after.

Catching Chris’s presence, Vince shot him a venomous glare.

“Shut your mouth, you pathetic idiot! This is between me and Maia!”

An eerie stillness clung to Vince for a heartbeat before his face twisted into something even more deranged.

Sudden, booming laughter erupted again, louder, wilder.

“Maia, will you marry me?” he shouted, his smile crazed and wide, as he dropped fully to one knee before her.

In front of a captive audience, Vince clung to the remote with white-knuckled determination, his other hand fumbling in his pocket until he pulled out a ring — every movement executed with the precision of a scene rehearsed countless times in his mind.

for everyone to hear. Gasps and shouts

proposing to Maia in front of

returned as Vince declared, “Maia, I mean it. This

expression radiated frantic obsession. He dipped his head,

me, and these people

narrowing with dread. There was no escape left for her. If she refused, Vince — in his unhinged state — might press the remote at any moment. It was a

her body, leaned closer and whispered, steady

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terror like

reason, his mind

Vince, who spat, “Mind your own business!

arm out, holding Chris back, and stepped forward. Her voice was calm, deliberate,

“Let me handle this.”

her tone steady but