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.

stoic facade, concealing any

all was well, the more Jules suspected that something

made a mistake from the beginning." When she had inquired whether Bruce had visited Forestvale, his initial

its notoriety, but Bruce was

the Ashton family," Jules said

chuckle.

updates on new

been half a decade. The few leads we had have faded, and the other

faded, the room was enveloped in a

the caller ID, she

Carl might be kept in the dark temporarily, evading

distressed look on Corrine's face, Jules immediately understood

reprimanded, he swiftly finished his coffee, donned his coat,

rose

"I need to

herself at

had just exited the

took the call

"Hello, Uncle Jayden."

through the line. "You didn't think

of such a

tone was an evident

She assured him, leaning back in her chair and

She playfully spun herself around, her demeanor light and youthful.

managing on my

reassurance slightly softened Jayden's

aware of the Ashton family's recent