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

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

with that."

her grip on Rita's

body hung further out the window, tremors wracking her frame as survival instinct took over. "Please, I'm

an inevitable crowd, phones emerging

onlookers with calculated coolness. Her imminent return to the Ford family and

serve as your final warning!" Corrine's words dripped

receded. Scrambling to her feet, she retreated while attempting one last

gracing her features that only

power over her anymore. She

chose confrontation, she would ensure they learned their

haunt her. "Don't think I'm ignorant of why you

promises echoed

man she had given

innocence.

forgotten the true circumstances

her deepest trauma so

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