The Heiress Returns : Married to a Tycoon

ce, framed by soft brown curls, glowed with a mix of nervous excitement and quiet dread. She was fat, yes

powerful family in the City of Eldergate. Everyone said

ked her in the eye unless he was shouting at her. Then came the stepmother-a venomous woman who never missed a ch

ather, the arrangement was made, a

its own twi

e final ritual at the Richard estate, M

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down at her as if mocking her confusion. Her father loomed o

* did I just he

?" Mia sat

d the air like a whip. "What kind of dirty little *whore*

-I didn't-! I've never slept with

think I'm a fucking idiot? W

"I never even left the house-! I've been locke

Something in her words, in the fear and truth behi

ch*," he hissed, turning awa