The Phantom Heiress Rising From The Shadows

Chapter 626:

Isabella huffed, her eyes sparking with defiance. “I’ve never had to speak before a crowd like that! Do you have to be so harsh to me? You’ve berated me for hours—enough already!”

She clung tightly to Denis’s arm, who cleared his throat like a seasoned diplomat and said, “Rosie, take it down a notch. Isabella was trying to help, but with the Harper Group’s stocks already bouncing back, she didn’t want to risk looking like a fool.”

He gave Isabella’s hand a reassuring pat. “Next time, she’ll step up.”

Rosie let out a sharp snort. “Denis, I don’t understand what you see in her. She is utterly useless.”

Isabella gave a soft hum, leaning into Denis like a cat curling up in a sunbeam. The stocks she held? A gift from Denis. Ever since Jade’s death, Denis had taken the reins of the Ward family’s ventures in Vanland. With Edward gone too, there was no one left to check his books, so Denis funneled all the profits straight into his own pockets.

Flush with cash, he had tossed Isabella some stocks as a little thank-you for keeping him company lately. More than that, he swore she was his lucky charm; business had been smooth as silk since she had been by his side. He wanted to spoil her.

with Rosie, he no longer cared about that. Especially since Rosie seemed to be on a losing streak lately, he figured it was

mouth,” he snapped. “Isabella’s not your punching bag.” He slung an arm around Isabella’s

after him, “What about those Harper Group shares?

I want them, I’ll find

crash. Everyone was brushing

men were hunched over their phones, eyes locked on the stock market’s pulse. The eldest was Luther’s

younger men were glued to their screens, tracking every twitch of the

Maybe we

should sell now before the

Rosie entered the room, holding up two fingers.

stocks creeping up, they were holding

Harper flashed a cocky smirk.