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?”

belt. “Playing hard to get? Let’s see

gents‘.”

toward her.

for her, Thalia’s kick landed precisely between his legs

collapsed with an agonized scream, curling into a fetal position.

with a

a joint lock, twisting until something popped.

tissue. “Pity. My

stung more than the

his good arm. Thalia executed a perfect throw, pinning him with her stiletto against his cheek. “Do

help!” Tattoos was writhing, blood seeping through

she’d used

arrived, freezing at the scene.

Tattoos gasped. “She’s broken

crowd gathered quickly.

long absence,

Charlotte exclaimed. “The

groaning men, then Thalia. “You’re not hurt?”

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“Please. They couldn’t touch me if they

classes with you next time,” Charlotte said admiringly.

were called. The men were taken to hospital while

Victoria

Grace emerged from behind a pillar, eyes

one, and they couldn’t handle

have thought the delicate–looking Thalia

roughians wouldn’t do. Next time she’d need professionals.

Thalia was giving her

had initiated the confrontation, making it

serious injury–a

suggested Thalia’s self–defense might

phone to make calls, Thalia

constitutes minor injury, both would be major. If both

charges.”

her legal

the audio recording.

threats were captured