Under the heiress facade

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Chapter 71

Hera spotted him standing there dumbstruck and snapped, “If you have something to say, spit it out otherwise, stop blocking my way like a moron.”

Zyler snapped back to reality, realizing she had just called him a moron! Hera, with her unsophisticated behavior, struck him as a real waste of good looks.

“I’m warning you, don’t you dare mess with Gigi again! And don’t even think about playing tricks on me!” Zyler warned.

Hera raised an eyebrow. “Play tricks on you?”

Seeing her denial, Zyler found her audacity irritating.

“I know you’ve got a thing for me and you’re trying to shake up my engagement to Gigi Well, forget it! The only one worthy of me from the Everett family is Giselle, the true heiress. You, as an adopted daughter, are not!” he deliberately emphasized his last sentence.

“Where’d you get that

Hera must

even start on what you’ve done to Gigi. Didn’t you

Isn’t that just to grab my attention? Well, cut it out! Even

Gigi, Gigi! Hera was tired of hearing it. Was Giselle trying to annoy ber by sending over

proud because of that? Get lost and leave me alone, Hera said.

andcommanding! Hera’s presence held the crowd in thrall

the guts to steal the spotlight from the

completely thrown off by Hera’s smooth reforts.

playing hard to get because she’s obviously into me! All that was just to catch my eye. Oh, women!” he scoffed internally, “Hera! What’s going on?

to find a crowd surrounding Hera and the others. Their smiles vanished instantly,

Enjoy yourselves,” Terence, the head of the Gaskell family, was calmer than James and quickly sized up the situation He greeted everyone with a hearty laugh along

expression darkened as she eyed

time, it was a scandal. Now, she was wearing a knockoff. Her fondness for Giselle had plummeted to zero, but in front of so many people, she instructed Zyler, “Zee, take

seeing Hera in trouble this time for offending Queenie. After Zyler