Rising From Ashes: The Divorced Heiress

Chapter 2

Word Count: 703 | Released on: 29/05/2026

ing his features. He withdrew a silk pocket square and deliberately wiped his fingers,

ing blue or the sun setting in the west. "You will carry the Astor name for the rest of your life. You wil

t had fueled her desperate act of defiance, evaporated, leaving a cold, heavy dread

he asked, her voice hollow. "What wil

and predatory. "Let you go? Who, then, will let I

fortress of grief and hatred, and she was the prisoner trapped inside its walls. In the suffocating s

t save her, perh

wavering. "Fine," she said, the word brittle. "You want to hear it? I'll say i

le, fleeting moment, shock registered in his eyes, a crack in his icy facade. Then it

up. His face was inches from hers, his breath hot with whiskey and r

It made the lie easier to tell. "I killed her," she repea

dawned in his eyes. He had broken her. He had finally extracted t

looked at her as if she were something he'd s

oor. He bent down, picked up the main document, and strode toward the massive stone fireplace wh

rown, and then erupted int

said, his back still to her as he watched her

tsteps echoing on the marble. The heavy doors swung shut be

strings cut. A violent tremor wracked her frame, a delayed reaction to the horror of what she had just done. She stared

d just handed her jailer the key and

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Rising From Ashes: The Divorced Heiress

Xiao Mao Mao Modern

“When Seraphina handed the divorce papers to her billionaire husband, she just wanted to end their suffocating marriage. Instead of signing, Julian burned the documents in the fireplace and declared her his eternal prisoner. "You will live in this house and be reminded every single day of the sister you took from me." He firmly believed she had murdered her sister, Isabelle-the only woman he ever truly loved. Driven to absolute despair, Seraphina falsely confessed to the crime just to force him to let her go. But Julian used her broken words to completely destroy her. He threw her out of the estate into the freezing rain, where she was struck by a speeding car. While she lay in the hospital with broken bones, her own family disowned her for ruining their business ties. Then, the police arrived to arrest her for Isabelle's murder, a final deadly trap orchestrated by Julian himself. She had lost her dignity, her family, and nearly her freedom, tortured by a man who only saw a ghost when he looked at her face. Why did she have to bear the weight of a crime she didn't commit, stripped of everything she ever had? Saved from prison by a friend's legal team, Seraphina left the city with nothing but her shattered pride. Four years later, she stepped out of the airport with her two children, no longer the fragile victim they broke. This time, she was back.”