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.

and steady plan to absorb Burgess Group, she wouldn’t have

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

hesitated, lips parting as

Nate’s deep voice sliced through the tension like a blade of ice. “Involvement in smuggling and

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

than a warning—it was

the Burgess family alone. Should her name become entangled in smuggling affairs, the Hopkins family wouldn’t extend a hand to pull

silent betrayals, any sign of weakness was an invitation to

a mask of composure, but beneath

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instead of claiming her prize, she was forced to watch it

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