The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

The Betrayed Heiress' Return to Elegance 237

Chapter 237 A Mistake From The Beginning

Jules reached for his coffee mug and sipped it, struggling to mask his surprise.

It seemed that in the past three years, Corrine had evolved into an even more

formidable individual.

Her latest actions seemed designed to ensure the Ashton family had no way out. As he pondered this, Jules silently lamented their fate for a brief moment. Corrine's transformation, however, caught him off guard. There was a time when Corrine would have risked everything for Bruce. Had she finally seen the light?

Jules glanced at Corrine, his eyes flickering with thought.

"Have you found out if Bruce was the one who rescued you five

years ago?" he asked.

Corrine's determination to help the Ashton family was due to the incident five years

ago.

She had always been silent about that night, and Jules had never pushed her for

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information.

His own memories of that evening hinted that Corrine had faced something life-

changing.

a stoic facade, concealing

was well, the more Jules suspected that

inquired whether Bruce had visited Forestvale, his initial confusion turned to contempt, treating

notoriety, but Bruce was supposed to be

wonder you didn't show mercy for the Ashton family," Jules

chuckle.

on new leads?"

a decade. The few leads we had have faded, and the other party made sure

his voice faded, the room

rang. Seeing the caller ID, she

in the dark temporarily, evading her well-informed uncle Jayden was another matter

face, Jules

being reprimanded, he swiftly finished

rose

to

at

fallback had just exited the

call reluctantly,

"Hello, Uncle Jayden."

through the line. "You didn't think

of such

tone was an

under control." She assured him, leaning back in her chair and turning away

door. She playfully spun herself around, her demeanor light

of managing

softened Jayden's

Ashton family's recent actions of selling some