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?”

unbuckling his belt. “Playing hard to get? Let’s see how innocent

gents‘.”

moved toward her.

Thalia’s kick landed

scream, curling into a

with

a joint lock, twisting

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

insult 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

Perhaps she’d used excessive

freezing

a bloody ambulance,” Tattoos gasped. “She’s

crowd gathered quickly.

Thalia’s long absence, pushed through–and

shit!” Charlotte exclaimed. “The

then Thalia.

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couldn’t touch

take those self–defense classes with you next time,” Charlotte

The men were taken to hospital while Thalia and the

and Victoria

crowd dispersed, Grace emerged from

Two against one, and they couldn’t handle her.

have thought the delicate–looking Thalia was trained in combat?

roughians wouldn’t do. Next time

arrived while Thalia was giving her statement.

the men had initiated the confrontation, making it self–defense.

hospital reported serious injury–a

might

his phone to make

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

charges.”

was her legal

She played the audio recording.

threats were captured