Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 874:

Sandra, drawn by the commotion, hurried over. When her eyes fell on Richard’s phone, she froze, as though jolted awake from a nightmare.

It felt as if time itself had twisted back four years — to when Maia, still the Morgan family’s daughter, stood faithfully beside Vince and the two had ended up together.

But now, Maia was already married to someone else. And Vince was proposing to her at this very moment. Had he completely lost his mind?

Beside them, Jarrod sprang to his feet. “Dad, Mom, look — Maia’s reaction seems off.”

He squinted at the live feed, frowning. “Look! She doesn’t seem willing at all. Isn’t she trying to stop Vince from doing something rash? Could it be… Vince is threatening her somehow?”

Richard’s brows furrowed deeper. He stared at the screen, piecing things together. Then his eyes sharpened.

“Exactly. Maia clearly isn’t on board — she’s trying to calm him down. What in the world is happening?”

struck Sandra. Her face paled. “Could it be… is Vince threatening to jump off a building

fell heavy with silence. Sandra’s idea, outrageous as it sounded,

to his mother, disbelief and worry

at the

his desk, eyes locked on the computer screen, his face a careful mask that

it threatened to splinter, yet he hadn’t written a

𝓞𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓷 𝓵𝓸𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷: ⳑ𝖺𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝗲𝗅𝘀⍿𝖼𝗈𝗆

the center of his screen. Vince, wild-eyed and desperate,

you marry

snapped cleanly

But within, his thoughts spun like a cyclone

his heart caught in a

it into