Your Gold Digger is Actually A True Heiress by Vera Fiore

Chapter 79

Asher gently placed Thalia on the bed. “Rest, darling. I’ll see who it is.”

When he opened the door, Asher’s brow instantly furrowed.

Drake stood in the hallway.

He’d nearly forgotten that Drake was staying in Annecy as well.

How terribly inconvenient.

Asher had just emerged from the shower with only a bath towel wrapped around his waist. The love bites on his neck and collarbone were unmistakable.

Confronted with this sight, the veins on Drake’s forehead visibly pulsed. His breath caught, face turning ashen, eyes harboring a dangerous storm.

“What the hell did you do to her!” Drake clenched his fists so tightly that the veins on the backs of his

hands protruded like cords.

Asher gave a soft, derisive laugh.

“We’re together. What do you imagine couples do?”

This statement was the final straw.

Drake felt his rage congeal in his chest, as though his blood had suddenly frozen solid. His head throbbed

mercilessly.

He had tortured himself with thoughts of whether Thalia and Asher might have slept together.

But those had merely been imaginings.

Now, faced with the reality, seeing the intimate marks on Asher’s body with his own eyes, Drake felt as if

for one second, everything before him went completely black.

A sharp ringing filled his ears accompanied by an agonizing pain in his chest. He swayed unsteadily on

his feet.

In the next instant, Drake charged forward like a crazed beast, his eyes bulging with rage, bloodshot and

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murderous.

Asher stepped back, pivoting to avoid him, then drove his fist into Drake’s face, immediately following with a vicious kick.

Sharp pain exploded across Drake’s face, his mind buzzing.

He staggered backwards, his body slamming against the corridor wall with a dull thud.

“Hah.” Contempt flashed in Asher’s eyes. “Drake, I gave you your chance. Three years ago, when Thalia got together with you, I convinced myself that as long as she was happy, I would step aside. But what did you do? How did you treat her?”

though an invisible hand was squeezing it mercilessly,

time to recover, immediately continuing his interrogation: “Drake, what right

was devastating.

momentarily lost his bearings.

What right did he have

destroyed his relationship with Thalia with his own hands.

man’s arms!

utter contempt, as if regarding a stray dog that had lost

precisely the type of man

they had when they possessed it,

was worth less than grass. Who was

confusion vanished from Drake’s face. He

the blood at the corner of his mouth making him appear both

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right, because I love her!” Drake’s voice cracked with emotion. “No one could possibly love her more

her? Bloody hell. Even a

version of

was about to say something more when Thalia’s

behind Asher.

on earth are you doing here?”

resembling one looking at a mortal enemy.

voice, Drake raised

attention was the unusual flush on Thalia’s face and the lingering passion

love bite on

that moment, Drake finally understood the meaning of

he had still clung to a shred of hope,

the marks on Thalia’s body and the alluring look in her eyes with his own eyes, Drake was on the

intimate

had truly been

to the brink of

piece of his heart, leaving it

carrying an unmistakable sob. “Please, don’t do this to

you…”

could you sleep

were too painful for him to utter. The mere thought made his

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bring himself to

did Drake finally understand the depth of his obsession with Thalia, the intensity of

twenty–some years of life, Drake had never experienced a moment of such utter despair

devastation.

was so distraught he felt he might shatter completely.

through the corridor carried a

with eyes full of anguish, as if he might vanish with the wind

we ended things amicably. I preserved your dignity.

and the place where Asher had struck him was bruised and

Drake’s voice was raspy. “Thalia, I was wrong. So wrong.

Thalia…”

man had humbled himself to

cared about pride or dignity, now begging Thalia in

him in this state, Thalia sighed helplessly.

“Drake, what’s the point of all this? I’m exhausted. Just let me

choked: “I’m sorry,

said nothing more, only giving him a