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.”

troubled little face in the rearview mirror. If she had known how cruel the Russells could be,

there,” she assured him. The Russell family had crossed

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

“No wonder you never wanted to get back together with him, even though he’s rich and

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, he’s sleeping around with

continued, “And get this, just last night, past midnight, he called me all panicked. He tried to explain what happened. He said it was some urgent crisis at work and that if he didn’t deal with it, he’d lose three hundred million. He begged

magic

Everything around him felt magical and new. Even Brenna and Ellie, despite being adults, couldn’t