Your Gold Digger is Actually A True Heiress by Vera Fiore

Early the next morning, Thalia was awakened by a telephone call.

She groggily pressed answer, her voice heavy with sleepiness. “Hello? Who is it?”

“Thalia, you need to come to the hospital to see Drake.” James‘ urgent, worried voice came through the line. “Drake nearly died, do you know that?”

The mere mention of Drake’s name filled Thalia with irritation. She’d already been exhausted from the

previous night’s activities, hadn’t slept nearly enough before being rudely awakened, thinking it must be something important–only for it to be about Drake.

Thalia was thoroughly annoyed, her temper flaring. She responded testily: “If he dies, just arrange the funeral. Let me know when it’s happening, and out of respect for our past relationship, I’ll send a generous condolence gift to his mother.”

With that, Thalia promptly hung up, not caring about James‘ reaction, and switched her phone to silent.

The commotion had awakened Asher. From beneath the covers, he tightened his arm around Thalia, his voice deep and magnetic. “Stay and sleep a bit longer with me.”

Thalia nestled closer to Asher, like an affectionate kitten seeking warmth.

The two of them lay snuggled in the same warm duvet, holding each other close.

The world seemed to contain only the two of them.

No matter how fiercely the snow and wind raged outside, it had nothing to do with them.

When James placed the call, Drake was already awake.

The call had been James‘ own idea, though he knew exactly what Drake was thinking.

Drake was clinging to an unrealistic hope–he desperately wanted to know if Thalia would be concerr about him nearly dying. Would she come to see him?

So he had anticipated this call eagerly.

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He had instructed James to put it on speakerphone.

However, when Thalia heard he had nearly died, not only did she offer not a single word of concern, but she responded with such cold–hearted words.

Drake’s hands clenched into tight fists, the veins on the backs of his hands protruding, his face paper–white, his lips completely drained of colour.

nervously. He thought Drake would explode with anger, and he

didn’t fly into a rage as he typically

silence, he simply said quietly: “Leave me alone. I need some time to myself.”

as James exited the hospital room, he encountered Sienna coming toward him. James was

traveled all the way to

face was full of concern.

head helplessly. “Not good

How did a simple vacation land

explained: “Last night was freezing with snow falling, about five or six degrees below zero. He was wandering around in just a thin shirt, eventually collapsed in the snow. Some passerby

he do something like that?”

caught between speaking

hadn’t said anything, James could guess the reason–it could only be

their accommodation in Annecy, where Thalia

could he explain

was such

Sienna had first returned from abroad, Drake and Thalia were still

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all his time hanging around with Sienna, with no regard for Thalia’s feelings. Now the tables had turned, and karma was catching

natural actors, and James found this particularly apt.

he loved Thalia so deeply–it might simply be an act to gain

Sienna, James genuinely

clearly known Drake and Thalia were together, yet she had shamelessly thrown herself at him. Anyone willing to be the third person in a relationship couldn’t be a decent sort.

wasn’t

saw Thalia and her boyfriend at the old town last night, got emotional, and went

“You’ve no idea–he nearly died. If that passerby hadn’t found him in time

this, James surreptitiously observed Sienna’s

from Sienna’s

“For

isn’t he pathetic? Ah, only learning to cherish

her voice rising sharply. “You’re saying he

for Thalia?”

nurse reprimanded her disapprovingly: “Madam, this is

down.”

from white to red with anger.

pushed open the hospital room door. “Drake! What’s the meaning of this?”

smirked, his gossipy eyes peering curiously into the room.

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