Divorced The True Heiress Gets It All novel Chapter 224

Chapter 224

Chapter 224

Russell stared at her, his expression unreadable.

Aria hesitated for a second, then stepped in, her eyes licking to the lit button for the nineteenth floor before she pressed eighteen herself. The elevator doors slid shut.

They each stood on opposite sides of the car

“We’ve met before, haven’t we?” Russell’s voice was low and deep.

Aria hadn’t expected him to recognize her so quickly.

After all, back then, she’d looked like a completely different person,

She replied calmly, “I don’t think so. I don’t know you.”

“Is that so?” Russell let out a cold, humorless laugh, dropping his gaze. “You remind me of someone who broke my rules, Ms. Saxon.”

Five years ago, Aria had taken a job protecting a certain politician–turing out a killer by posing as his lover at the Baron casino.

The plan worked, cha

chaos broke out, and the casino was forced to shut down for a while,

Aria had left a generous payoff behind and vanished without a trace.

Clearly, Russell was talking about that night.

Just as she was about to speak, a surge of danger prickled her nerves.

She moved on instinct, dodging the sudden attack his hand slashing through the air, a test as much as a killing blow

If she’d been any ordinary person, her throat would have been crushed by now.

In the cramped space, fists whistled through the air. He struck, she parried.

Russelllashed out with a vicious kick

in such a narrow elevator, a missed kick could easily you away–or break your own bones

Aria twisted out

of the way, then took advantage of the opening to drive her knee toward his gut.

He absorbed it without flinching, grabbing for her shoulders with both hands.

it

She dodged, twisted, then drove her hand for his neck–slamming Russell’s back into the elevator wall

The doors slid open at the eighteenth floor

Russell made no move to counterattack, only stared her down, eyes sharp and calculating. “Not bad. No wonder you managed to tear my casino apart.”

Aria’s grip on him didn’t loosen, her brow furrowed. “Didn’t I already pay you? Wasn’t fiteen million dollars enough”

Russell replied, “Did I ever say lagreed to your terms?”

He raised his lett hand, enclosing hers where was locked around his neck. “That’s not how I settle debts.”

His palm was hot—almost feverish, Ana let go, her voice flat. Tine. What do you want, then?”

The doors slid shut

started moving down.

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Chapter 224

“I’m not interested in money,” Russell said quietly

He leaned in, gaze burning, not bothering to hide the hunger in his eyes. “You’ve got a beautiful body, you know.”

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