Your Gold Digger is Actually A True Heiress by Vera Fiore

Chapter 177

Chapter 177

“You did that deliberately, didn’t you?” Thalia’s cheeks burned–this fame from embarrassment.

That had been an accident! A complete accident! Surely Rupert wouldn’t think they’d bean terraty Ksing in her

office?

It wasn’t that she cared about Rupert’s feelings, but she genuinely didn’t want anyone misinterpreting her relationship with Asher.

Regardless of who that person might be.

Asher tilted his head slightly, regarding her. “Did what?”

“You know exactly what you did!” Thalia gritted her teeth. “You deliberately moved closer so I’d accidentally touch your lips, knowing you’d get lipstick on you, specifically so Rupert would see it Admit in

Asher shrugged, his lips curved in amusement. “Wanting a kiss was genuine, but I honestly didn’t realize there was lipstick involved.”

“Drop the innocent act,” Thalia scoffed. “If you didn’t know, why were you smirking at Rupert?”

Asher maintained his look of exaggerated innocence. “Was I? It wasn’t intentional. I’d just had a little kiss with my darling–I couldn’t help smiling from sheer happiness.”

“Asher Blackwood!” Thalia snapped, grabbing a box of tissues from her desk and hurling it at him.

Asher caught it effortlessly. “Yes, I’m right here!”

He was grinning now, his dark eyes dancing with mischief.

“I am not your ‘darling‘! Stop with these ridiculous terms. I absolutely detest flippancy!” Thalia glared at him, pointing emphatically toward the door. “Now, this instant, get out!”

“As you wish.” Asher, having finished shredding the papers, obediently headed for the door. “Next ume you need odd jobs done, I’m at your service.”

Thalia fumed. “Out!”

As Asher left the office, he nearly collided with Lucy Jenkins.

“Good afternoon, Mr. Blackwood.” Lucy smiled politely, then froze when she noticed the lipstick on his lip.

“Hello,” Asher replied, clearly in excellent spirits.

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Blackwood, yourves” Lany hindisied,

but he feigned ignorance, giving het

eyes suddenly lit up

was racing.

and Ms.

lives on!

lift, Rupert happened to be leaving the

approached with his briefcase, and upon seeing Asher, his tone carried a distinct erige of Blackwood seems to be thoroughly

she’d ask me to means we’re close. She feels comfortable enough to ask favors of me. Notice she doesn’t ask

isn’t it? She’s likely too uncomfortable to impose on you–suggests your relationship isn’t particularly intimate, wouldn’t

Rupert: “.

someone so adept at twisting reality to suit themselves.

into a smile that didn’t reach his eyes. “Mr. Blackwood certainly has a unique sense of

The lift arrived.

opened, and both men entered.

expression?” In the mirrored interior of the lift, Rupert’s handsome

has Mr. Lysander heard the saying ‘You don’t fish

momentarily silenced.

have already proven barren, surely the former offers more promise?

tension crackled between the two men,

of feeling is

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absence is equally definitive.”

his eyes darkening

glacial “How does a wounded heart heal? When someone has loved with their entire being, only to be devastatingly hurt by

faded. He

the underground car

The doors opened.

Asher exited first.

followed, his expression

shall see, Asher Blackwood. We

work on Friday, Thalia was just leaving her office when she

perfectly normal as he said, “Ms. Winters, there’s something I feel I should clarify with

it?” Thalia asked.

walk in the park nearby? We can talk as we

something genuinely important to discuss, hesitated briefly before nodding. “Alright.”

April evenings were

after six, the glow

the promise