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.

If you plan on killing me, it’d be a

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

father and brother in heaven and

and brother how hard things had been for her and her mother these past few years.

to visit her grandmother and be by

wanted her

deteriorating; she could not afford surgery or hospital stays. She was moved from a room to a corridor, sleeping there day

time was with the man in front of her.

lost her child.

was in a mental institution, under

he released her abruptly. She breathed heavily, her voice hoarse. “Mr. Lindbergh, I won’t leave Northfield. If you don’t want me to see Jason, then

man stared at her, motionless.

was on top of her. She didn’t have the strength to resist him. But Allison knew what

we continue?” she