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

don't mistake my patience for weakness," Corrine drawled, her tone deceptively casual "Since

with that."

tightened her grip on Rita's

wracking her frame as survival instinct took over.

spectacle drew an inevitable crowd, phones emerging to

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

final warning!" Corrine's words dripped with contempt

immediate threat of death receded. Scrambling to her feet, she retreated while attempting one last

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

no power over her anymore.

chose confrontation, she would ensure they learned their

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

hollowness of promises

the man she had given her heart to

innocence.

forgotten the true circumstances of her

expose her deepest trauma so carelessly, without a