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?”

stepped closer, unbuckling his belt. “Playing hard to get? Let’s see how innocent you are in

gents‘.”

toward her.

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

collapsed with an agonized scream, curling into a fetal

lunged with a

a joint lock, twisting until something popped. His scream joined

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

insult stung more than the

tried to swing with his good arm. Thalia executed a perfect throw, pinning him with her stiletto

Tattoos was writhing, blood seeping through his

over. Perhaps she’d used

freezing at the

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

crowd gathered quickly.

about Thalia’s long absence,

exclaimed. “The ninja skills are back!”

groaning men, then

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hair. “Please. They couldn’t

with

The men were taken to hospital while Thalia and the bar

Victoria followed.

from behind a pillar, eyes glinting

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

would have thought the delicate–looking Thalia

do. Next time she’d

arrived while Thalia was giving

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

hospital reported serious injury–a ruptured testicle requiring surgery.

suggested Thalia’s self–defense might have exceeded reasonable force.

to make calls,

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

charges.”

her legal

played the audio recording.

were captured