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

Caroline was seething.

Drake found this

be clear: The Ashcroft family isn’t open to

“Mm–hmm.” Thalia murmured.

for a daughter–in–law. Her family has known ours for generations. She was Drake’s first love. Save

call about Ashcroft Capital’s liquidity crisis, how their projects were stalling,

marriage, three years of dating meant something.

why she’d gone to the bar that night–to discuss

their estrangement. But her cousin Alexander, now CEO of Sterling Industries and one of Britain’s fastest–growing companies, would

she’d heard Drake call her Sienna’s

Caroline, “Don’t worry. I’m returning to London

to be this

for compensation?

felt off, but she couldn’t

her watch. “If you’ll excuse me,

she grabbed her bag and left.

Did she just

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nerved” Caroline fumed to herst. Teving before I did

elders

middle clan girl with the vast difference between their

with trembling hands, perhaps calling rate in

was not how she’d expected

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

had a thousand grievances about this ill mannered girl!

driver was waiting outside.

after getting in the car, she received

her voice into something warmer,

darling, you won’t believe how that girlfriend of Drake’s just behaved. Absolutely no class–though what else can you expect