Chapter 716

Phoebe looked dazed as the cops took her away. She tried to put up a fight, but it was useless. "The hitmen you sent have already confessed. The evidence is watertight." Her heart sank instantly. She still wanted to struggle, to reach out to Mr. Beach—hoping, maybe foolishly, that he'd save her just this once. But that man had long since washed his hands of her. Her stupidity had gotten Eric killed in that fire. With the last Rixon heir gone, chaos in the family was inevitable. And power? It was bound to fall into Eileen's hands. That woman wasn't just ruthless—she was the legit heiress. No way she'd ever align herself with the likes of Beckett. Eric had been hunted for years, and behind those attacks? All Eileen. Now he was dead. She'd won. Simple as that. … Phoebe's arrest was something even Madeleine and Beckett hadn't seen coming. At Beach Group headquarters, Beckett finally accompanied Maddy to the office—only after she gave him the go-ahead. Phoebe had somehow managed to get word