Chapter 163 Burn the Bridge and Salt the Earth

The Reed family rejects their own daughter for not being good enough!

Stella is no longer a daughter of the Reed family!

Susan personally signed the severance agreement with her biological daughter!

Biological daughter vs. adopted daughter: The Reed family chose the adopted one!

A child raised from infancy can’t be replaced–not even by blood!

In just minutes, headlines like these flooded Rivermount’s trending topics, igniting a storm.

Ethan was at his wits end.

And Susan was faring no better.

The news had spread like wildfire. Several society ladies had already called her, pretending to be “concerned, but their tone. was full of smug mockery.

Susan felt like her liver, lungs, and heart were about to burst.

She frantically dialed Stella’s number over and over, switching phones when one got blocked.

Finally, Stella picked up. “Hello?”

-Stella, how could you do something like this?! The severance agreement was your idea, and now you’ve made it look like we wronged you!”

“You used Eddie and Rianne to lure me into signing. You tricked me—and now you’re painting me as the villain!”

Susan exploded, her voice sharp and breathless.

in her mind, she was the one who had been hurt. She was the victim–deceived and taken advantage of

thought she was a heartless

still foggy with sleep. After

“You-”

nearly fainted from

What did I ever do to deserve this

regretted ever bringing Stella

what difference would it have made

the streets–it

want money, is

Susan practically choked.

course it had

rock bottom and now wanted to squeeze

Burn the Bridge and Salt

+B Pearls

blood: You want to bring them in and suck the Reed

furious, she forgot all

billion–dollar necklace around her

could see now was a

“You’re all starving!

listened to her tirade

lazily rolled over in bed. “Right. I almost starved to death when I was living with the Reed

word

not

on it. If she had,

“You-

rage sent dark spots across

was calm. “Suck the Reed family’s blood? Do they

the Dawson family

What blood? They didn’t

tell me, what was the point of making a

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