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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?”
belt. “Playing hard to get? Let’s see how innocent you are
gents‘.”
toward her.
reached for her, Thalia’s kick landed precisely between
agonized scream, curling into
lunged with
twisting until something popped.
asked mildly, wiping her hands with a tissue. “Pity. My Krav Maga’s getting rusty–I was hoping for a workout.”
more
good arm. Thalia executed a perfect throw, pinning him with her stiletto against his cheek. “Do practice
writhing, blood seeping through
over. Perhaps she’d used excessive force.
arrived, freezing
Tattoos gasped. “She’s broken
crowd gathered quickly.
Thalia’s long absence, pushed through–and stopped
“The ninja
men, then Thalia. “You’re not
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flipped her hair. “Please. They couldn’t touch
me to take those self–defense classes with you next
Victoria
Grace emerged from behind
one, and they couldn’t handle
would have thought the delicate–looking Thalia was trained in
Next time she’d need
arrived while Thalia was
CCTV footage confirmed the men had initiated the confrontation, making it self–defense.
injury–a ruptured testicle requiring surgery.
suggested Thalia’s self–defense might have exceeded reasonable force.
his phone to make
minor injury, both would be major. If both were
charges.”
legal territory
She played the audio
threats were captured
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