The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

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

now, but don't mistake my patience for weakness," Corrine drawled, her tone deceptively casual "Since you can't

with that."

tightened her grip on

the window, tremors wracking her frame as survival

drew an inevitable crowd, phones

calculated coolness. Her imminent return to the Ford family and their business interests demanded discretion. She couldn't

warning!" Corrine's words dripped with contempt as she yanked

Relief flooded her system as the immediate threat of death receded. Scrambling to her feet, she retreated while attempting one last show

gracing her features that only enhanced her ethereal.

power over her anymore. She had nothing

chose confrontation, she would

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

promises echoed

cut deeper was the knowledge that the man she had given her heart to had never truly believed

innocence.

true

deepest trauma so carelessly, without a shred of