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

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

with that."

grip on Rita's

as survival instinct took

crowd, phones emerging to capture the

Her imminent return to the Ford family and their business interests demanded

dripped with contempt as she yanked

her system as the immediate threat of death receded. Scrambling to

arched elegantly, a glacial smile gracing her features that only enhanced her ethereal.

held no power over her anymore. She had

she would ensure they

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

promises

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

innocence.

the true circumstances of her

he expose her deepest trauma so carelessly, without

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