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

the whole city thought she was

still foggy with sleep.

“You-”

fainted from

What did I

bringing Stella back

difference would it have

on the streets–it had

money, is that

Susan practically choked.

spectacle–of course it had to

rock bottom

Burn the Bridge and

+B Pearls

lost your mind? Those people aren’t even blood: You want to bring them in and suck the Reed family

forgot all

billion–dollar necklace around her

could see now was a daughter staging a public

“You’re all starving!

to

almost starved to death

She threw the word right

not even on

she never relied on it. If she had, she really would’ve

“You-

dark spots

“Suck the Reed family’s blood? Do they even

the Dawson family

didn’t have enough

Then tell me, what was the point of making a