The Betrayed Heiress' Return to Elegance 11

Chapter 11 Do What You

Must

A sharp crack split the air as Corrine's palm connected with Rita's cheek.

The impact sent Rita stumbling backward, her smugness dissolving into stunned disbelief. Fury blazed in her eyes as realization dawned. "You... you actually dared to strike me?"

"Why shouldn't I?" Corrine's voice carried winter's chill. "What makes you think you're untouchable?"

In one fluid motion, Corrine seized Rita by the throat and thrust her toward the open window with devastating

force.

Rita's feet left the floor as her upper body dangled precariously over the edge.

The dizzying height of fifteen floors below sent waves of terror through Rita's body. Her vision swam as panic clawed at her throat. "Help! Someone please

don't mistake my patience for weakness," Corrine drawled, her tone deceptively casual

with that."

tightened her grip on Rita's

body hung further out the window, tremors wracking her frame as survival instinct took over. "Please,

drew an inevitable crowd, phones emerging

onlookers with calculated coolness. Her imminent return to the Ford family and their business interests

this serve as your final warning!" Corrine's words dripped

receded. Scrambling to her feet, she retreated while attempting one

arched elegantly, a glacial smile gracing her features that only enhanced her ethereal. beauty. "Do what

power over her

would ensure

Rita's revelation continued to haunt her. "Don't think I'm ignorant of why you

hollowness of promises echoed through her

knowledge that the man she had

innocence.

Bruce forgotten the true circumstances of

her deepest trauma

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