Your Gold Digger is Actually A True Heiress by Vera Fiore

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“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?”

“Playing hard to get? Let’s see how

gents‘.”

toward her.

for her, Thalia’s kick landed precisely

with an agonized scream,

Hair lunged with a snarl.

twisting until something

with a tissue. “Pity. My Krav Maga’s getting

insult stung more than

perfect throw, pinning him with her stiletto against his

writhing, blood seeping

she’d used excessive

arrived, freezing at

Tattoos gasped. “She’s broken

gathered quickly.

Victoria, worried about Thalia’s long absence, pushed through–and stopped

shit!” Charlotte exclaimed. “The

assessed the groaning men, then Thalia.

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couldn’t

take those self–defense classes with you next

were called. The men were taken to hospital while Thalia and the bar manager were escorted

Victoria

crowd dispersed, Grace emerged from behind

thugs. Two against one, and they couldn’t

delicate–looking Thalia was trained in combat?

wouldn’t do. Next time

was

CCTV footage confirmed the men had initiated the confrontation, making

the hospital reported serious injury–a ruptured testicle requiring

might have

for his phone to make calls, Thalia stopped him.

“A single testicle constitutes minor injury, both would be major. If

charges.”

her legal territory

the audio

men’s threats were captured