Your Gold Digger is Actually A True Heiress by Vera Fiore

Chapter 7

Thalia took a seat in the armchair opposite Caroline, meeting her gaze with quiet composure. “I never wanted to marry into the Ashcroft family.”

Caroline didn’t believe it for a second.

She studied Thalia carefully.

So this was the girl her son had been dating for three years.

Pretty enough, she had to admit, and carried herself well. Despite her middle–class background, she didn’t have that obvious social–climbing desperation Caroline was used to seeing.

Caroline had deliberately thrown that barb earlier, hoping to see her squirm. But the girl hadn’t flinched, maintaining her poise and speaking with surprising confidence.

Not that it mattered.

Just another gold–digger with delusions of grandeur, no matter how well she played it off.

“No need to pretend with me,” Caroline’s voice dripped with condescension. “I’m a woman too–I know exactly what you’re thinking. Drake’s quite the catch, isn’t he? A trust fund baby who’s been bankrolling your lifestyle. Must be nice.”

“I don’t want his money,” Thalia replied.

Caroline’s laugh was cold. “Please. You social climbers are all the same. Playing hard to get while taking everything you can. Why else would you be with Drake?”

Thalia had to smile at that.

“Mrs. Ashcroft, are you suggesting your son has nothing to offer except his trust fund?”

“How dare you!” Caroline’s perfectly controlled breathing hitched. “Such insolence! Drake said you were sweet and accommodating. Clearly, he was mistaken.”

Thalia calmly sipped her tea.

“And no manners,” Caroline sneered. “Not even offering tea to your elder.”

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you wouldn’t want to drink from anything in my modest apartment.

Caroline was seething.

had Drake found this

Ashcroft family isn’t open to just anyone. Marrying Drake? Not

“Mm–hmm.” Thalia murmured.

for generations. She

remembered overhearing Drake’s phone call about Ashcroft Capital’s liquidity crisis, how

helping then. Though Drake clearly had no intention of marriage, three years of dating meant something. She could have arranged investment through

bar that night–to discuss possibly investing in

father wouldn’t help, given their estrangement. But her cousin Alexander, now CEO of Sterling Industries and

then she’d heard Drake

worry. I’m returning to London

it to be this easy. She

for compensation? No

felt off, but she couldn’t place what.

excuse me, I have an

for a response, she grabbed her bag and

stunned. Did she just leave?

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Caroline fumed to herst. Teving before I did her. Zero respect

elders

impressive jewelry today, intending to the middle clan girl with the vast difference between their worlds.

imagined Thalia serving her tes with trembling hands, perhaps calling rate in tears later.

how she’d

reason to stay. She stormed out, already composing her complaints about Thalia to Drake.

about this ill

driver was waiting outside.

in the car, she received Sienna’s call.

her voice into something warmer, she answered.

of Drake’s just behaved. Absolutely no class–though what else