Your Gold Digger is Actually A True Heiress by Vera Fiore

Chapter 50

Grace’s eyes welled with tears as she looked pleadingly at Lady Blackwood. “Grandmother…”

Lady Blackwood glanced between Asher and Grace before exhaling deeply. “Very well. Grace, since you claim it was merely a misunderstanding, please explain yourself properly in front of everyone. I’m

certain Thalia isn’t unreasonable.”

With Lady Blackwood taking this position, Grace had no one left to shield her.

She sniffled, her expression a portrait of wounded innocence. “That day at the stables, I asked Thalia to teach me riding. Everything was fine until the horse suddenly went wild. I… I was thrown and injured.”

Everyone already knew this much, but Asher’s tone suggested there was more to the story. They maintained a tactful silence, waiting for her to continue.

Grace darted a nervous glance at Asher. His piercing gaze made her shrink back. She stammered, “It was just a misunderstanding, really. I thought Thalia disliked me and deliberately spooked the horse to hurt me. But later they found a wound on the horse’s neck–it must have been injured before being brought out. I must have accidentally pressed against it, causing the horse to bolt.”

She turned to Thalia with carefully manufactured contrition. “I’m sorry, Thalia. I misjudged you. shouldn’t have assumed the worst. Can you forgive me?”

Thalia’s brow furrowed as she regarded Grace silently.

I

Lady Blackwood spoke reproachfully, “Grace, how could you think such things about Thalia? She would never hurt you.”

Lord Blackwood also appeared displeased. “If you wanted to learn riding, why not take proper lessons? Not only did you end up injured, but you’ve created this ghastly misunderstanding with your brother’s

fiancée.”

At the mention of “fiancée,” a surge of jealous rage burned through Grace’s veins.

She managed to keep her voice steady. “I know I was wrong, Father, Mother.”

Asher’s gaze remained glacial. “That day, didn’t you explicitly claim that Thalia had kicked the horse, causing it to bolt? Why have you conveniently omitted that detail now?”

Without waiting for Grace’s response, Asher turned to his parents. “Mother, Father, who exactly has been

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become like this–full of lies and manipulations?”

and Lady Blackwood exchanged

frowned. “Did you actually lie,

Grace’s face in well–practiced anguish. “I… I was wrong, Mother…”

was a misunderstanding, but you never mentioned that you lied. Is this what your education has taught you–to

caught on to

Lord Blackwood, my daughter would never harm anyone deliberately. Your ward has falsely accused

daughter. While our family may not wield the same

unexpectedly moved hearing her father and stepmother defend

her. Victoria had proven her

her emotional barriers.

sobbing intensified. She stood and bowed formally to Thalia. “I’m sorry, Thalia. I was wrong. I shouldn’t have lied

but she’s apologized now. Couldn’t you find it in your heart

Thalia frowned slightly.

Blackwood’s tone, as if withholding forgiveness would somehow reflect poorly on Thalia

I must say, that’s rather unfair. Whether to forgive or not is

displeasure. “Asher,

at all,” Asher replied, his expression carefully neutral. “I’m simply asking that Lia not be pressured.”

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up to his grandmother for her sake, Thalia quickly interjected, “It’s

his hand and giving it a gentle squeeze, signaling

received her message, the sharpness in his

fury that she nearly cracked her teeth from clenching

dug crescents into her palms as she

I’ll make you disappear from this world completely.*

Thalia was

under her pillow for her mobile, barely managing to open her eyes a

a cacophony of background noise blasted through

is this?” Her voice was thick with irritation at being disturbed in the dead

other end

something,”

just the chaotic background noise.

eyes open enough to check the

An unknown number.

she guessed