Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 986:

He gave a short laugh, trying to push the thought aside. “This isn’t the moment to drift into nonsense,” he muttered.

As far as Roland was concerned, the whispers about Maia and Claudius carried no weight at all. Still, the way the matter had snowballed while Maia remained out of sight gnawed at him.

He had seen plenty of dirty tricks in the past. Rumors were often spun to sway the crowd. And when words alone failed, some went further — snatching people, holding them captive, silencing them completely so the real story never surfaced.

Was it the Cooper family pulling the levers in secret, or had the Ward Group deliberately spread dirt to rescue Vince? Maybe the two families were in on it together.

Their goal was plain — to drag Maia’s name through the mud, to turn her from a celebrated heroine into a woman accused of stringing along men, and to push Vince’s reckless behavior onto her supposed betrayal.

Absolutely infuriating!

head, scanning the space in search of

His eyes narrowed.

wide, yet there

the Coopers and Wards already made their move against Maia last night? Just then, his phone buzzed again, breaking

glanced at the screen. It

Saying she plotted the explosion herself? And blaming her

your

bridge of his nose. He was just about to type back, telling Elvira to cool down,

Ding!

mirror. How could Maia ever fancy him? And now

other side, raging like a kettle about to boil over. Truth be told, Elvira had already started venting over the phone before Roland even left the house, and she hadn’t stopped since — firing off messages nonstop, making sure he wouldn’t let it slip his