Your Gold Digger is Actually A True Heiress by Vera Fiore

Chapter 23

“To adopt Grace?” Thalia asked.

Victoria leaned closer, lowering her voice. “More than that. She asked Asher’s mother to have him marry Grace when they grew up.”

Thalia’s eyes widened in shock.

“Christ,” Charlotte exclaimed. “The nerve of her!”

“Lady Blackwood must have found some way to refuse,” Victoria continued. “The housekeeper eventually accepted just the adoption as repayment.”

Charlotte scoffed. “Obviously. As if Lady Blackwood would let her only son marry a housekeeper’s daughter.”

“Exactly. The heir to the Blackwood name? Impossible.”

Thalia sipped her cocktail thoughtfully.

None of them noticed the woman watching them from across the bar, her eyes cold with hatred.

After a few drinks, Thalia stood. “Just need the ladies‘.”

In the narrow corridor outside the restroom, two men blocked her path.

One was heavily built, head shaved, tattoos covering his arms. He whistled crudely. “How about some company, love?”

Thalia, who’d been checking her phone, glanced up briefly. Discreetly, she switched to her recording app before slipping the phone into her pocket.

His companion, thin with bleached hair, smirked around his cigarette. “Pretty thing like you must be fun.”

“Charming,” Thalia said coldly. “Is that mouth always so delightful?”

Bleached Hair grinned nastily. “Name your price, sweetheart.”

The corridor was too narrow to slip past them. Thalia crossed her arms, maintaining her composure.

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“Let’s see… funeral services start at five thousand. Extra for the wake, two thousand for professional mourners, brass band’s another three… Cremation’s the budget option. Shall I price up a coffin? Family discount for multiple deaths.”

“Mouthy bitch,” Bleached Hair spat. “Think you’re clever?”

closer, unbuckling his belt. “Playing hard to get?

gents‘.”

moved toward her.

kick landed precisely between his legs with

scream, curling into a

Hair lunged with a snarl.

a joint lock, twisting until something popped. His scream joined his friend’s.

wiping her hands with a tissue. “Pity. My Krav Maga’s getting rusty–I was hoping for a

more than

executed a perfect

writhing,

over. Perhaps she’d used

arrived, freezing at

Tattoos gasped. “She’s

gathered

and Victoria, worried about Thalia’s long

exclaimed. “The ninja skills are back!”

then Thalia.

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hair. “Please. They couldn’t touch me if they tried.”

self–defense classes with you next time,”

called. The men were taken to hospital while

Victoria

the crowd dispersed, Grace emerged from behind a pillar, eyes glinting

Two against one, and

thought the delicate–looking Thalia was

do. Next time

Thalia was giving

confirmed the men had initiated the confrontation, making it

reported serious injury–a ruptured testicle requiring

suggested Thalia’s self–defense might have

reached for his phone to make calls,

officer: “A single testicle constitutes minor injury, both would be major. If both were ruptured requiring removal, then yes, it might exceed

charges.”

legal territory now.

She played the audio recording.

men’s threats were