She Left She Thrived She’s Worth Billions novel Chapter 1021

Rivercross was a small, rural town on the outskirts of Averin. It was isolated and economically depressed.

Sabrina Lowell and Aria Royce had been living there for quite some time.

Back when the two of them had conspired with Gregory Hale to steal the Royce Group's exclusive nutrient formula, Nathaniel Royce had banished them to Rivercross the moment their plot was exposed.

Nathaniel had left them with only ten thousand dollars—a gesture that, in Sabrina and Aria's eyes, was essentially leaving them to rot.

When they first arrived in Rivercross, they struggled to adapt to country life.

Forget entertainment; the town didn't even have a decent supermarket.

Bugs swarmed everywhere, and their living conditions were incredibly bleak.

Sabrina cried herself to sleep almost every single night.

The ten thousand dollars dried up quickly.

With no other options, Aria was forced to look for work.

But she had no idea how to farm, and the local convenience stores rejected her applications to be a cashier. They simply didn't need the extra help.

Manual labor was entirely out of the question.

She simply didn't have the physical strength to haul bags of cement.

Just as Aria felt utterly backed into a corner, a stroke of luck finally came her way.

A wealthy local businessman from Lester's Hollow was going around buying medicinal herbs from the villagers.

Given her background in pharmaceuticals, Aria seized the opportunity. She brazenly approached Mr. Lester and pitched herself as a consultant, offering to appraise the authenticity and quality of the herbs he bought.

Mr. Lester already had a consultant.

A male one.

But the moment he laid eyes on Aria's striking beauty and heard her confident pitch, he fired the guy on the spot and hired her in his place.

He even offered her double the previous consultant's salary—a solid thousand dollars a month.

In a place like Rivercross, that kind of money was more than enough for Aria and Sabrina to live comfortably.

However, that high salary didn't come without a catch.

In Aria's eyes, Nathaniel was no longer a father.

He was an enemy!

Though, of course, her biggest enemy was still Melanie!

Aria was still young, and she refused to give up on life the way Sabrina had.

She was going to escape this hellhole of a town.

She was going to claw her way back to the top.

To do that, securing a wealthy backer was absolutely necessary.

This wasn't Mr. Lester's first time keeping a young mistress.

But compared to the girls before her, Aria was by far the cheapest to maintain.

Because Aria almost never demanded houses, cars, jewelry, or designer bags.

All Aria asked for was a continuous bump in her salary.