The Phantom Heiress Rising From The Shadows

Chapter 523:

Ellie opened the containers and started eating with Patrick. “You know me too well, bringing food because you know I always skip breakfast,” she said to Brenna.

Brenna casually brought up the previous day’s events. “The Russell family let you take Patrick home yesterday?”

Ellie’s expression darkened with anger. “I thought they cared about Patrick, but when I arrived, Jayceon’s dad and grandma were berating him. The maids were holding him down, forcing him to kneel. Jayceon wasn’t even there; who knows where he was at that time? It made me so mad.”

Patrick, still chewing his food, looked up at Brenna with wide, pitiful eyes. “Brenna, I never want to go back there. They were all mean. That old lady with gray hair yanked my hair and kept talking about doing some kind of DNA test. She even said I only came back for the Russell family’s money and called Mommy a bad woman too! They’re bad! Every single one of them. I’m never going to Daddy’s house again.”

cruel the Russells

she assured him. The Russell family had crossed

Russell estate, Patrick was already on his knees. Their whole family was surrounding him, asking him how I made a living in Norview and whether there was a man in our home. You wouldn’t believe the kind of filth they were spewing. And you know what made it worse? Jayceon wasn’t even there. Only God knows where he ran off to. I tried

“No wonder you never wanted to

nothing like them. Your brother and Mr. Mitchell, especially Mr. Mitchell, are decent. They don’t mess around with women. Jayceon, on the other hand, is pure trash. He says I’m the only woman he has ever loved, and at the same time,

work and that if he didn’t deal with it, he’d lose three hundred million. He begged me to understand him. Can you believe that? In his eyes, Patrick and I don’t even come close to that amount of

the magic on

Ellie, despite being adults, couldn’t help