Your Gold Digger is Actually A True Heiress by Vera Fiore

Chapter 41

After being thrown out, Drake stood with his mother and Sienna outside the Sterling estate.

“Son, what do we do now?” Margaret was nearly in tears. “Have we ruined everything with the Sterlings? What about the investment?”

“Will they retaliate?” Sienna trembled. “The Sterlings are so powerful.”

Drake remained silent, moving like a puppet with cut strings, his expression vacant and lifeless.

Later that evening, as Asher drove Thalia home, she hesitated outside her building. “About today…”

He brushed a strand of hair from her face, his voice low and vulnerable. “When he said you could have been married and happy if he’d known your identity… I was afraid. If you-”

“There is no ‘if,” Thalia cut him off gently, meeting his dark eyes. “Don’t worry about things that never happened.”

“Besides,” she added seriously, “I never planned to marry Drake anyway.”

Asher’s eyes brightened. “Really?”

Thalia nodded, smiling. She shivered slightly in the night air, but her eyes sparkled. “Back then, I never thought about marrying Drake. But now, I’m looking forward to our engagement ceremony.”

Asher slipped off his jacket, wrapping it around her as he pulled her close. “So am I.”

Drake left the estate alone in his car, disappearing into the night.

Sienna drove Margaret back to their hotel, both women still shaken from their humiliation. As they stepped out of the car in the underground parking garage, they were suddenly grabbed from behind. Before either could scream, bags were pulled over their heads and everything went dark.

They awoke in a dimly lit private room, forced face–down against a glass table. A man covered in tattoos lounged on the sofa across from them, one leg crossed casually over the other.

“Let’s have some fun,” he smiled menacingly. “Share a drink with me?”

Margaret, still playing the wealthy matriarch, began hurling abuse at him. “How dare you! Do you know who I am? When my husband-”

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man’s smile never wavered as he nodded to his associate. The black suited man grabbed Margaret by the hair, delivering two sharp slaps that echoed through the room.

burned as she clutched her face. “Who are you people? Why are

One more word and we’ll solve that

silent, her legs trembling

remained pinned to the table as the man picked up a glass of wine, splashing it across her face. “Tonight’s simple – finish

can’t drink!”

sharp gesture, his men began forcing liquor down their throats. No matter how they struggled,

after glass, bottle after bottle, until their stomachs

just hard enough to dimple the skin. “Watch who you cross in this city. Some people aren’t

her face bloodless

suddenly roared, making both women jump.

cold steel against their skin and their lives literally in his hands,

we understand,” they whimpered in unison.

outside Drake’s hotel suite, knocking softly.

you

Silence.

endlessly before disconnecting. Since that night at the Sterling estate, Drake had

desk confirmed he hadn’t checked out.

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I’m not leaving until

of relentless knocking, the door finally opened.

hit her, making her gag.

She pinched her nose

looked terrible–sunken eyes ringed black, unshaven, his face oily and unwashed. The reek

he hadn’t showered in

yourself?” Sienna asked, fighting

lifeless, his voice hollow. “What do you want?”

been worried sick about you.” She pushed past him into

heavy curtains were drawn tight, no lights on despite the midday hour. The spacious suite was

black.

flicked on the lights with a grimace. Empty