But Patrick responded with a harsh slap across her face.
“Shat the hell up!”
He glared at her and snapped, “Do you even realize that above the financial magnates of Slivershade, there’s a hidden family that’s been around for over a hundred years? That is the Vanderbilt family”
“In Stivershade, they decide who gets to be rich and who doesn’t.”
“And the Simone you all look down on? She’s t
be’s the Vanderbilt family’s heiress.”
The moment those words landed, the entire room was stunned,
Everyone stared at me in disbelief, eyes wide with shock.
Only now did these so–called elite familles finally understand
they had looked down on the most… was actually the most powerful one in the entire room.
The person they
Dominic, still lying on the floor, looked up at me in stunned silence for a long time before finally speaking in a trembling voice,
I these years, Carter Group grew so quickly… because of you?”
Tlooked down at him and said coldly,
“What else did you think?*
“You really believed you had what it took to achieve all that on your own?”
Faced with my scom, Dominic–normally so proud and self–righteous–neither lashed out nor got angry.
