Return of the Crowned Heiress novel Chapter 716

Felicia's hand froze as she turned toward the source of the scream.

The first thing she saw was a pair of white leather shoes. They were dirty, but the ankles above them were slender and delicate—unmistakably belonging to a woman.

The sight struck a chord of familiarity.

Felicia hesitated for a moment, then remembered—they were the same shoes she had seen before losing consciousness in the fog the previous night.

Maurice also remembered.

In fact, from the moment he regained consciousness, he had never forgotten that final scene—the one that played out while Felicia had been unconscious.

So, throughout the entire day while he wandered the island and pretended to be aimless, he had been discreetly watching. He had been searching for these shoes. And now, their owner had appeared on her own.

Maurice's lips curved into a barely perceptible smirk, but the coldness in his eyes betrayed his true emotions. Beneath the surface was a simmering intention to kill.

Even Felicia noticed it.

She glanced at him questioningly, trying to ask what was wrong.

Maurice shook his head with a faint smile, indicating it was nothing.

Felicia didn't press further.

They had finally found a venomous creature that could save Maurice's life, only for it to slip away at the last second because of this woman.

The ones most infuriated, however, were Maurice's subordinates.

Their emotions had been played like a rollercoaster. Their hopes rose, only to crash back down in an instant. Their patience had run dry.

Before Felicia or Maurice could say a word, Maurice's men stormed forward, yanked the woman out of the bushes, and threw her onto the open ground before them.

Felicia frowned. At that moment, a strange, fleeting sense of familiarity flashed through her mind. She had seen this woman before, but she couldn't recall exactly where.

She wasn't the only one who felt that way.

Even Maurice's men were stunned. At first, they had been startled by her horrifying appearance. Then, as they exchanged glances with each other, one of them suddenly blurted, "Wait… You… You wouldn't happen to be that woman from before…"

Before that man could finish his sentence, the woman let out another piercing shriek. Like a wild animal being driven into a corner, she went berserk.

Before anyone could react, she sprang up from the ground, her frail-looking body moving with shocking agility as she disappeared into the forest in the blink of an eye.

Maurice's men stood frozen in shock, staring at the direction she had escaped as if still trying to process what had just happened.

Several seconds passed before one of them turned to Maurice, his expression grave.

"Mr. Glovers… It's that woman!"