The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 383:

Karina watched them leave, feeling suddenly invisible. Was she truly unnoticed? With Corrine now focused on her boyfriend, had she been forgotten by her best friend?

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 into 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.

surfaced unbidden: Corrine’s desperate pursuit of marriage, followed by

the weight of guilt when she was in front of him. Bruce questioned the depth of feelings that could transition so seamlessly. Though love had never stirred in his heart for Corrine, something in him rebelled at how quickly she had found solace in another’s

he

intake of breath drew her gaze upward, where

eyes, concealing their glacial glint

man in her life, Corrine still wielded power

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their line of sight, her tear-stained cheeks flushed

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carrying traces of contempt at her disheveled state—makeup smeared, black

provoking her,” he reprimanded

fools, plotting against

rose with each word, fury and humiliation feeding into each