The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

The Betrayed Heiress' Return to Elegance 294

Chapter 294 Barking Like

A Dog

The scene unfolded with merciless intensity as Corrine maintained her iron grip on Leah's shoulder, leaving no room for resistance. Leah felt as helpless as prey in a predator's sights, waves of humiliation washing over her with crushing force.

She bowed her head, teeth sinking into her lower lip as she tried to block out the countless mocking stares surrounding her.

Her trembling fists betrayed the tempest of hatred and fury building within.

The bitter irony of her position struck deep-she was the Burgess family heiress, Bruce's chosen bride, destined to lead the Ashton household. Yet here she knelt, subjugated by Corrine, whom she viewed as nothing more than a rural upstart from humble origins.

The indignity of it burned like acid in her veins.

Rita, seeing Corrine's attention diverted to Leah, sensed an opportunity for revenge.

With desperate speed, she snatched an ashtray from the nearby coffee table and lunged toward Corrine, murder blazing in her eyes.

"Die, you

wretch!"

panicked warning pierced the

live stream in his

features.

have worried. Corrine

catching Rita's wrist while gripping

crash of Rita's body hitting the floor echoed through the room, a testament to Corrine's

of an admiring smile played across Nate's

the floor, gasping for air between pained coughs. "Corrine...

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in her gaze as she attempted a final plea, her face a masterpiece of fragile vulnerability.

dripped with mockery as she towered over her kneeling form. "Tell me, would you show mercy if our positions were reversed? A loss demands its

"What more

you

simple." Corrine's words fell like ice shards. "Crawl on your hands and knees. Bark like

Leah into