The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 971:

Even now, Sonia still struggled to believe that the complete downfall of the Burgess family was real.

Over the years, Corey had been involved in countless illegal dealings, yet somehow, every single time, he had slipped through the cracks, untouchable. No evidence ever stuck to him.

But this time was different. Not only had the company’s financial records been thoroughly investigated, but even the confidential roster had surfaced—the very list of powerful names Corey had relied on to protect him from the law’s reach.

Those documents had always been kept under Corey’s tight control, guarded like treasures even from her.

Yet the investigators had unearthed them with disturbing ease, as if they had been guided by invisible hands.

estate sealed off and the company dissolved into nothing, Sonia had been reduced to a pauper, stripped of everything in the blink of

who had spent her life as a pampered socialite, accustomed to silken luxury and the envious gaze of others, the collapse of

had driven her to turn to the only circle she knew—her fellow socialites, the friends she had once wined and dined with, exchanging secrets over crystal glasses and laughter. Surely, among them, someone would

one, those so-called friends drew their curtains and shut their doors, pretending not to know her. None dared to be tainted by the Burgess name,

she had left, rose to her feet, and made her way to the

“Mom—”

for updates:

hand pressed her shoulder, guiding her back down into her

took the seat across from her daughter, inhaling deeply as though she needed the air to brace herself for what came next. “Leah, no one is willing to help us

flashing with a fragile

to Corrine and