Your Gold Digger is Actually A True Heiress by Vera Fiore

Chapter 185

No one could have anticipated how suddenly disaster would strike

As they approached the restaurant entrance, two men burst from the crowd without warning

Both wore black masks and baseball caps pulled low over their faces.

One was tall with muscular, tattooed arms visible beneath his white t–shirt

The other was shorter and less imposing, but no less dangerous,

Thalia and Alana reacted with instinctive precision, sidestepping the initial assault.

“Get them out of here!” Alana shouted, dodging the taller man’s blade and landing a powerful counterpunch. Tve got this–go now!”

Lucy and Katie stood frozen, their faces drained of color.

For Lucy, the scene triggered a visceral flashback to her time at Sinclair & Klein–when a disturbed client had brandished a knife and her colleague had used her as a human shield. The memory paralyzed her with terror.

“Run!” Thalia grabbed both women by their arms, her voice cutting through Lucy’s panic.

The physical contact snapped Lucy back to reality, and she began moving on instinct.

Katie, experiencing this level of danger for the first time, found her legs uncooperative. The high heels she’d worn to work betrayed her after just a few steps–her ankle twisted sharply, sending her sprawling to the pavement.

Alana, now fully engaged with her attacker, made a split–second assessment: these weren’t ordinary thugs, but professionally trained operatives.

This wasn’t her first encounter with mercenaries, however. She knew their techniques–and their weaknesses.

The shorter assailant, seeing Katie fall, seized his opportunity. Breaking away from his companion, he sprinted

toward the vulnerable women.

“Can you stand?” Thalia crouched beside Katie, urgency edging her voice.

face contorted with pain

managed to put weight on one foot, the injured one barely touching

shorter attacker closed the distance with alarming speed.

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in the fading sunlight as he lunged directly at Katie.

hesitation. Thalia shoved Katie clear of the attack and engaged the

stunned horror

fear, a singular thought registered: Thalia knows

side. “We

Katie’s face had gone ghostly pale, cold sweat beading on her forehead.

already dialing emergency services on her

doing the same,

with brutal efficiency, immediately assessing

kick that sent the muscular man reeling, she

After several exchanges, it became clear that she was facing someone whose

were beginning to falter.

attacker recognized his advantage, driving his blade toward Thalia’s heart in what

blow.

locked around the man’s wrist with crushing force, drawing a grimace of pain from his partially concealed face.

might have avoided a direct hit to her heart, but the blade would have found flesh elsewhere. Any

appropriated his weapon, pressing

throat.

the public setting prevented her from ending the threat permanently.

muscular man, assessing his deteriorating situation, turned

with cold derision.

a medical ampoule from her pocket and broke the seal. In one flui

coated the knife blade

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