The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

The Betrayed Heiress' Return to Elegance 189

Chapter 189 If Bruce

Weren't Her Savior

Through the darkness, Corrine made her way home, fighting the persistent urge

reach out to Nate.-

Settling at her desk, she opened her laptop to find Jules' email waiting

Her fingers glided across the mouse as she absorbed the contents, when Jules' video call suddenly illuminated her screen.

"I warned you from the beginning about men like him, but you wouldn't listen. Now the proof lies before you, plain as day. What's your response?" Jules' voice carried a mixture of concern and vindication.

"Even the most discerning among us can fall prey to deception," Corrine mused, resting her chin thoughtfully on her hand while continuing to scroll through the evidence.

Jules studied her composed demeanor with growing bewilderment. "How are you. maintaining such calm?"

Corrine lifted her eyes to meet his through the screen, considering her words carefully. "Perhaps my feelings weren't as deep as I imagined."

how Bruce had materialized precisely when her need

interactions, that

her eternal anchor, yet he abandoned her

torn open old childhood wounds, making any

have

he drew in a contemplative breath. "Corrine, you considered that the

broken only by

penetrating gaze held the depth and chill of a

suggesting?" Corrine's voice tightened with

account, I conducted my own investigation. While Bruce was indeed in Yikar then, his stay was brief," Jules explained,

expression, her pupils contracting

Jules admitted, his gaze steady on her face. "Corrine, you might want to find a way to

understand," she

Corrine remained motionless before

echoed relentlessly in her

hadn't

shred