The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 959:

Leah dared not imagine what would happen if the skeletons of their past were fully unearthed.

If she got caught in the fallout, the Ashton family would cut ties without hesitation.

She would become the laughingstock of Lyhaton—the woman abandoned by her husband barely a week after marriage.

No! She couldn’t let Bruce abandon her!

Her eyes welled up as she turned toward Andromache, her voice almost pleading. “Andromache…”

But Andromache had never held much affection for Leah. And without affection, there was no sympathy—no sense of obligation to come to her aid.

absorb Burgess Group, she wouldn’t have wasted a single breath

Burgess family on the brink of collapse, all those carefully laid plans were

hesitated, lips parting as

before she could, Nate’s deep voice sliced through the tension like a blade of ice.

frozen lake, sending a chill

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defense, the repercussions wouldn’t end with the Burgess family alone. Should her name become entangled in smuggling

nothing but power plays and silent betrayals, any sign of weakness was an invitation to

remained a mask of composure, but

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scheming for control over Burgess Group—wasted. Now, instead of claiming

pressed hard against her palm as she hissed through gritted teeth, “Nate, you