Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 1033:

The hospital.

The faint, lingering beeps from the ended call hung in the room. Chris had already pivoted sharply, striding toward the patient rooms.

His eyebrows knit together, a quiet sense of unease gnawing at him.

But when he swung the door open to the room where Ethan should have been resting and Maia had just been returned, the bed lay empty—both of them were gone.

The room was deserted except for Marisa, who sat alone beside the window.

“Where are they?” Chris demanded, his tone edged with urgency.

Marisa caught his words and let out a quiet snort, deliberately turning her face away. Her eyes stayed glued to the view outside the window. Clearly, she had no intention of joining the conversation.

and his voice dipped lower as he asked

finally swiveled her head, replying sharply, “I

room that night and wouldn’t be coming back to the patient room. After exchanging a few words with

in reality, Marisa genuinely had no clue where Maia had gone—and

Ethan disliked probably had hidden motives. If Chris hadn’t been there, Ethan wouldn’t have clashed with Maia, and his injuries wouldn’t have started

live now

had quietly begun to care about Ethan’s likes and dislikes, standing by

of confusion, wondering why Marisa seemed to take a dislike to him. Had something happened to sour

didn’t linger on it, though, and turned to leave the room to check with the duty nurse. As he stepped into the corridor, he ran into a familiar

“Maxwell?”

is in this room, right? I thought

the people who had kidnapped his sister, running on no sleep from the previous night straight through to now. The most irritating part was that those