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

brink of collapse, all

hesitated, lips parting

like a blade of ice. “Involvement in smuggling and illegal transactions

like a stone on a frozen lake, sending a chill rippling through the

more than a warning—it was

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

plays and silent betrayals, any sign of weakness was an invitation to

a mask of composure, but

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for control over Burgess Group—wasted. Now, instead of claiming her prize, she was forced

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