NovelUpdateChapter 959: Leah dared not imagine what would happen if the skeletons of their past were fully unearthed.
If she got caught in the fallout, the Ashton family would cut ties without hesitation.
She would becthe laughingstock of Lyhaton-the woman abandoned by her husband barely a week after marriage.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtNo! She couldn't let Bruce abandon her! Her eyes welled up as she turned toward Andromache, her voice almost pleading. "Andromache..." But Andromache had never held much affection for Leah. And without affection, there was no sympathy-no sense of obligation to cto her aid.
If not for her slow and steady plan to absorb Burgess Group, she wouldn't have wasted a single breath on Leah. Yet now, with the Burgess family on the brink of collapse, all those carefully laid plans were at risk of crumbling overnight.
She hesitated, lips parting as if to speak.
But before she could, Nate's deep voice sliced through the tension like a blade of ice. "Involvement in smuggling and illegal transactions is no small matter." Each word landed like a stone on a frozen lake, sending a chill rippling through the air.
It was more than a warning-it was a declaration.
If Andromache dared to utter another word in Leah's defense, the repercussions wouldn't end with the Burgess family alone. Should her nbecentangled in smuggling affairs, the Hopkins family wouldn't extend a hand to pull her out-they would stand back and watch her sink.
For in a family bound by nothing but power plays and silent betrayals, any sign of weakness was an invitation to be trampled.
Andromache's face remained a mask of composure, but beneath it, she seethed.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmFind n3w chapt3rz at glovels.☐☐☐ Weeks of meticulous scheming for control over Burgess Group-wasted. Now, instead of claiming her prize, she was forced to watch it all go up in smoke.
Her nails pressed hard against her palm as she hissed through gritted teeth, “Nate, you really are something."
She had wanted to use this incident to deal a blow to Corrine, to to make Nate feel the sting of loss: Yet in the end, she was the one who suffered a devastating setback.
Nate smirked, a slow, knowing expression. "Choose your allies m wisely, of you may find yourself losing everything."
Andromache's eyes flashed with anger. Before she could lose her m composure entirely skelefout a cold seoff and turned to leave. She had arrived with confidence, yet now, she departed in disgrace. As she passed Leah, the desperate woman called out once more. "Andromache, please..."
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