Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 906:

Right then, the faint honk of a car horn broke the silence. Her taxi had shown up at last. Maia let out a slow breath and climbed into the vehicle.

She didn’t realize that in a shadowy nook beneath a distant streetlamp, someone quietly moved, their eyes fixed on her as she drove away.

“Damn it.” A sharp breath escaped from the man hidden in the shadows. He was no ordinary hire. Melanie had shelled out a fortune just to bring him in. Cade Riley carried a name that needed no introduction in Wront. He was the kind of private eye you called when no one else could deliver.

Sweat gathered at his brow despite the cool air around him. He dragged a sleeve across his forehead and tried to calm his breathing. What had just unfolded moments ago still rattled his nerves.

“That wasn’t normal. Couldn’t have just been by chance,” Cade muttered under his breath, more to steady himself than anything else.

Years of digging into people’s secrets had made him sharp. Mistakes were rare, almost nonexistent. But tonight, while tailing Maia, he caught a flicker of something he didn’t expect—she had stopped and turned like she sensed him.

The moment froze him.

linger. She turned back around and got inside the taxi, none the

being spotted still lingered.

got it, sir,” came the hushed

the tree line and made his way to a black sedan stationed a few feet away.

up in front of Elysium Apartments. While retracing her steps from Marvelous Garden,

𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲

home, Maia turned aside and slipped through a

her guard down and turned

off, hidden among the branches, Cade watched with growing satisfaction. There was no doubt she had keen instincts—but not sharp enough to shake

moment, a hushed voice came through his earpiece. “Sir, the target appears to be…