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

until now, but don't mistake my patience for weakness," Corrine drawled,

with that."

her grip on

further out the window, tremors wracking her frame as survival

drew an inevitable crowd, phones emerging to capture the

to the Ford family and their business interests demanded discretion. She couldn't afford a scandal

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

nearly buckled as they reconnected with solid ground. Relief flooded her system as the immediate threat of death receded. Scrambling to

features that

Ashtons held no power over her anymore. She had nothing left to

chose confrontation, she would ensure they learned

think I'm ignorant of why you vanished back then. Bruce shared

promises

the knowledge that the man she had

innocence.

Bruce forgotten the true circumstances

trauma so carelessly,

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