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

including us,” Richard said with gentle reassurance. “Everything belongs to yesterday now. Perhaps someday

Rosanna had returned to the Nelson mansion’s familiar embrace. Her spirits soared with quiet

had prostrated herself before Kiley, surrendering her pride to become nothing more than a willing servant—even offering to grovel as her devoted lapdog—all

sacrifices, she would pay any price. After all, the moment she bartered away her dignity and status for raw

the victory she

tales

as an assistant to

shower while Rosanna stretched across their bed, her vacant

piece on her elaborate chessboard. But in my carefully constructed game, she has become the true pawn serving my

into granite resolve. The time had arrived for her