The Phantom Heiress Rising From The Shadows

Chapter 730:

No matter how much Elsa tried to cheer her up, she couldn’t shake the heavy weight of failure.

However, Kenny had been the one source of warmth in her life lately. She thought back to the first time she was supposed to meet Ethan for their blind date, only for him to leave her waiting all day without showing up.

In a last-ditch effort, she had gone to his workplace just to catch a glimpse of him, and that was when she had been utterly swept away by him. It had been love at first sight.

When Elsa set up a meeting with Brenna just to provoke her, she had brought Kenny along to pretend to be Ethan. Kenny and Minna had held hands to put on an act at that time.

That was the first time Minna had felt something close to warmth from a man. Kenny wasn’t the man who had stolen her heart at first sight, but his resemblance to Ethan was uncanny. And back then, she had thought he was Ethan for a second.

On another occasion, Elsa had once again used Kenny as a tool to get under Brenna’s skin, this time by having him and Minna wear matching rings. When Kenny had placed the ring on her finger, Minna had briefly allowed herself to believe she was truly engaged to Ethan.

that every small pocket of warmth she had found lately had come from

tears slipping down her

at her in silence, torn between the absurdity of his thoughts and the impossibility of saying them aloud.

he

his phone rang. It was his

on a business trip, and a call from him now could only mean one thing—he

imagination soar

stupid?” Emmett had no idea that Kenny had twice pretended to be Ethan in

has to fall in line. If not, she

so loud that it made Kenny flinch. “That doesn’t give you

to help fix it?” Kenny asked in a low, desperate