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.

out, clear enough for everyone to hear. Gasps

to Maia in

as Vince declared, “Maia, I

radiated frantic obsession. He dipped

now, come with me, and these

If she refused, Vince — in his unhinged state — might press the remote

and whispered, steady and unwavering, “You’re not alone. I’m right

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words cut through her terror

reason, his mind

Vince, who spat, “Mind your own business! You don’t belong in this! This

out, holding Chris back, and stepped forward.

“Let me handle this.”

her tone steady