The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 329:

“Yes, you are,” she answered.

“Is that all you have to say?” Nate teased, gently nibbling on her earlobe, sending waves of sensation that made Corrine tremble, her heartbeat racing.

Corrine instantly noticed a shift in Nate’s behavior tonight. Her gut feeling alerted her that he was close to the edge, signaling that it might be safer to tread lightly around him. He appeared like a tightly wound spring, and she opted to align with his mood rather than challenge him.

As Nate held Corrine quietly in his embrace, he narrowed his eyes and let out a soft, indifferent chuckle.

“Are you dissatisfied with me?”

Frustrated by Nate’s continual probing, Corrine retorted, “Nate, what’s troubling you tonight?”

“Why do you ask?” Nate responded, his smile chilling as it failed to mask the frost in his gaze.

“What if the roles were reversed? If I had been the one disappearing into bars to ogle other women, would you overlook it? Would you remain unbothered?”

a moment, she acknowledged that

of desire

you admire most

question. It was a

hand from his chest down to his

a hot surface. She instinctively wanted to retract her hand, but Nate’s firm grasp

flustered expression,

just stir my emotions and not see them through. You’re

found herself speechless

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on her lips. As time melded around them, the charged atmosphere eventually dissipated, leaving a

front of you,” Nate

that someone who appeared so reserved and aloof could say such things. Nate carefully cleaned Corrine’s hands with a napkin, meticulously attending to each

wrists were sore, so she allowed him to proceed as he