Rising from the Ashes The Heiress They Tried to Erase

Chapter 1050:

He lifted the device, studying the illuminated screen as his brow creased into deep furrows.

Sandra glided past, catching sight of his troubled expression. “Richard, has something disturbed you?”

Richard’s gaze snapped upward, wonder threading through his words. “Someone witnessed Rosanna at Cooper Group’s exclusive cocktail gathering this evening.”

He bolted upright, turning the phone toward her. “She appeared in public not as our Morgan daughter, but as Axell’s wife—Mrs. Nelson.”

“This news fills my heart with pure joy!” Sandra seized the phone, devouring its contents with hungry eyes. “Richard, what we did was right—Rosanna will surely remember our sacrifice with gratitude.”

“Precisely! Axell honored his word and made Rosanna his wife,” Richard reflected, satisfaction warming his voice. “We fulfilled our final duty as her biological parents.”

Sandra’s expression clouded with sudden melancholy. “Yet we received no

thoughts—Axell must have forbidden her from including us,” Richard said with gentle reassurance. “Everything belongs to yesterday now. Perhaps

the Nelson mansion’s

a willing servant—even offering to grovel as her

she bartered away her dignity and status for

had finally grasped the victory she had pursued so

favorite tales are

her desperate proposal, hiring her as an assistant to

across their bed, her vacant stare

I’m merely another piece on her elaborate chessboard. But in my carefully

had arrived for her foolish parents to face