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.

away his phone, swallowing nervously. He thought Drake would

Drake didn’t fly into a rage

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

exited the hospital room, he encountered Sienna

actually traveled all the

face was full of concern. “How

sighed, shaking his head helplessly. “Not good at all.”

How did a simple

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

“Why would he do something

seemingly caught between

could guess the reason–it could

place where Drake had collapsed last night was near their accommodation in Annecy, where Thalia and her boyfriend were also

he explain this?

was such a

had first returned from abroad, Drake and

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for Thalia’s feelings. Now the tables had turned, and karma was catching

men are natural actors, and James found this particularly

state wasn’t necessarily because he loved Thalia so deeply–it might simply be

for Sienna, James genuinely

then, Sienna had clearly known Drake and Thalia were together, yet she had shamelessly thrown herself at him.

suddenly found it wasn’t so difficult to speak after

love. Drake saw Thalia and her boyfriend at the old town last night, got emotional, and

an expression of profound regret. “You’ve no idea–he nearly died. If that passerby hadn’t found him

James surreptitiously observed Sienna’s

from

“For

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

was trembling with anger, her voice rising sharply. “You’re

for Thalia?”

disapprovingly: “Madam, this is

down.”

shifted from white to

forcefully pushed open the hospital room door. “Drake! What’s

peering curiously into the

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