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

Ashton, I've tolerated your behavior until now, but don't mistake my patience for weakness," Corrine drawled,

with that."

tightened her grip on

window, tremors wracking her frame as survival

inevitable crowd, phones

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

as your final warning!" Corrine's words dripped with contempt as

legs nearly buckled as 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

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

her anymore.

she would ensure they learned

continued to haunt her. "Don't think

of promises echoed through

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

innocence.

Bruce forgotten the true circumstances

could he expose her deepest trauma so carelessly, without