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 heartless

other end, Stella was still foggy with sleep.

“You-”

fainted from

me. What did

regretted ever bringing

happen, what difference would it have

on the streets–it had nothing to do with

money,

Susan practically choked.

of public spectacle–of course it

rock bottom and now wanted

Burn the Bridge and

+B Pearls

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

furious, she forgot all about

the billion–dollar necklace

now was a daughter staging

“You’re all starving!

to

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

the word

month–and not even on a

it. If she had, she really would’ve

“You-

sent dark spots across

Reed family’s blood? Do they even have

the Dawson

didn’t have enough for

what was the point of making