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

your behavior until now, but don't mistake my patience for weakness," Corrine drawled, her tone deceptively casual "Since you can't control that tongue of yours, perhaps

with that."

tightened her grip on Rita's

frame as survival instinct

drew an inevitable crowd,

imminent return to the Ford family and

words dripped with contempt as she

they reconnected with solid ground. Relief flooded her system as the immediate threat of death receded. Scrambling to her feet, she retreated while attempting one last show of bravado. "Corrine, you'll regret this! The Ashton family won't let this insult

features that only enhanced her

over her anymore.

confrontation, she would

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

promises echoed through her

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

innocence.

forgotten the true circumstances of

could he expose her deepest trauma so carelessly,