The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

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

was still foggy with sleep. After

“You-”

fainted from

you want from me. What did I ever do

ever bringing

this would happen, what difference would it have made if she’d never had a

streets–it

money, is that

Susan practically choked.

spectacle–of course it had to be about

must’ve hit rock bottom

the Bridge

+B Pearls

you completely lost your mind? Those people aren’t even blood: You want to bring them

forgot all about Stella’s multi–million–dollar

billion–dollar necklace around her

now was a daughter staging a public scandal for

“You’re all starving!

to her tirade

bed. “Right. I almost starved to death when I was living

threw the word right

month–and not even on a

never relied on it. If she

“You-

sent dark spots across

was calm. “Suck the Reed family’s

Dawson

what? What blood? They didn’t

me, what was the point of making