Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 871:

“You’ve cornered me, Maia. Don’t you see? I have nowhere left to go. Life means nothing without you. Say you’ll marry me, here and now, and I’ll listen to anything you want… I swear it.”

Maia kept silent, her brow furrowing as unease clouded her face. Nothing in that moment felt more volatile than Vince himself — a human powder keg ready to explode at the slightest spark.

His breaths came fast and ragged, chest rising and falling like a storm on the verge of breaking. Then, with a sudden shout, his plea tore through the air, wild and desperate.

“Maia! Will you marry me?”

The words carried a force that turned every head, pulling even more eyes toward them.

Excitement rippled through the bystanders who hadn’t noticed until then. Several rushed closer, shouting:

come see! There’s a

recording, snapping, streaming — the crowd capturing every second in a frenzy. Within moments, livestream links

to all but Maia and Chris, even as the growing audience only strengthened

tension pressed in from all sides, nerves stretched to breaking point. One wrong

couldn’t tell. Her only hope was to keep him talking, to stall, to search for any crack

every sense on high alert. One look at those concealed detonators told him enough: this was no bluff. Vince was far more dangerous than his worst suspicions had

𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕔𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕖: 𝗀‎𝖺‎𝗅‎𝗇‎𝗈‎ν‎𝖊‎𝗅‎𝘀‎﹒‎𝖼‎𝗈‎𝗆

the moment to slip his phone from his pocket. He silenced it, dialed Maxwell from memory, and held it close, his

suspected a thing. The call had connected in perfect

at the caller ID and tapped his