The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

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Chapter 299 She Had Underestimated Corrine

Matias wavered, noting Karina's discomfort, before offering with careful distance. "Miss Brooks, shall I arrange transportation for you?"

“Don't bother,” Karina declared, sliding her sunglasses into place and hoisting her bag with practiced indifference before marching away with exaggerated confidence.

Matias stood there, stung by the rebuff, his brow furrowing in contemplation of women's inscrutability.

As Nate and Corrine prepared to get in the car, Matias hastened to join them.

Bruce, supporting Leah as they emerged from Modern Square, found his gaze drawn to Corrine nestled naturally in Nate's protective embrace.

The sight challenged everything he thought he knew about her. In his mind, Corrine had always been winter incarnate, holding the world at arm's length. Yet here she was, dismantling his certainties one by one.

Her warmth existed-it simply belonged to another man, while Bruce received only the chill of her indifference.

Memories surfaced unbidden: Corrine's desperate pursuit of marriage, followed by her swift progression into a new romance after their split.

another man openly, showing neither the wounds of heartbreak nor the weight of guilt

for Corrine, something in him rebelled at how quickly she had found solace in another's arms, how freely she offered her

mind, he had claimed ownership of

grip on Leah's

her gaze upward, where she caught Bruce's

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on Corrine's departing

eyes, concealing their glacial

as she realized she

underestimated her rival.

another man in her life, Corrine still wielded

tear-stained cheeks flushed and swollen. "Bruce, you must defend our

his glance carrying traces of contempt at her disheveled state-makeup smeared, black trails of eyeliner

against provoking her," he

voice rose with each word, fury and humiliation feeding each

to stone.