The Billionaire’s Maid Bride

Chapter 216

“Lucian, folks like you who are loaded may talk about pride, but for a poor sod like me, pride is priceless. If I’d known you had a thing for virgins, I would’ve kept myself pure and then spent a night with you. That way, you’d have had to marry me, right?”

Sometimes, the sharpest weapon wasn’t a blade, but words that cut like a knife.

As her words hung in the air, Lucian’s gaze turned colder, a vein on his forehead pulsing. He was afraid he’d hurt the woman before him if he didn’t control himself.

“I don’t want to see you with Jason again. If I do, I’ll make sure you disappear from Northfield.”

“Disappear how?”

The woman’s hair spread out on the man’s pillow, a smile playing on her lips, seemingly unafraid. “Jason’s into me. You should go talk to him. What’s the point of talking to me? You guys are right; I’m a gold digger. I just want the dough, and I’m happy when a rich guy’s chasing me.”

Before Allison could finish, a hand was around her throat.

breathe. “I’ve had twenty–one tough years. If you plan on killing me, it’d be a relief,

closed her eyes. Sometimes, death can be a relief. Living can

in heaven and see how they were doing.

tell her father and brother how hard things had been for her and her mother these

to visit her grandmother and

her grandmother’s

to the hospital with no money. Her mother’s condition was deteriorating; she could not afford surgery or hospital

was with the

had lost her child.

mental

her abruptly. She breathed heavily, her voice hoarse. “Mr. Lindbergh, I won’t leave Northfield. If you

at her, motionless.

to leave, but the man was on top of her. She didn’t have the strength

shall we continue?” she invited