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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smile was pure Manhattan frost. “My apologies, Mrs. Ashcroft. I assumed you wouldn’t want to drink from anything in my modest apartment. Wouldn’t want to

Caroline was seething.

had Drake found this insufferable

she continued. “Let me be clear: The Ashcroft family isn’t open to just anyone. Marrying

“Mm–hmm.” Thalia murmured.

generations. She was

slightly. She remembered overhearing Drake’s phone call about Ashcroft Capital’s liquidity crisis, how their projects were stalling, hemorrhaging

years of dating meant something. She could have

was why she’d gone to the bar that night–to discuss possibly investing in Ashcroft Capital.

now CEO of Sterling Industries

Drake

worry. I’m returning

it to be

for compensation? No drama?

but she couldn’t place what.

you’ll excuse me, I have an

waiting for a response, she grabbed her

stunned. Did she just leave?

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before

elders

middle clan girl with the vast difference between

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

was not how she’d

to stay. She stormed out, already composing her

had a thousand grievances about this ill mannered girl!

driver was waiting outside.

getting in the car, she received Sienna’s

her voice into something warmer,

behaved.