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 you can't control that tongue of yours, perhaps I should

with that."

grip on Rita's

wracking her frame as survival

an inevitable crowd, phones

the Ford family and their business interests demanded discretion. She couldn't afford

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

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

features that only enhanced her ethereal. beauty.

her anymore. She had

she would ensure they learned their

"Don't think I'm

promises echoed

that the man she had given her heart

innocence.

Bruce forgotten the true circumstances of

her deepest trauma so carelessly,