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.

by her

the depth of feelings that could transition so seamlessly. Though love had never stirred in his heart for Corrine,

of his mind, he had claimed

intake of breath drew her gaze upward, where she caught Bruce’s

lowered her eyes, concealing their glacial glint as she

in her life, Corrine still wielded

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 gⱯ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀⨁𝗰𝗈𝗺

into their line of sight,

defend our honor

his glance carrying traces of contempt at

warned you against provoking her,” he

fools, plotting against Leah and me, forcing

voice rose with each word, fury and humiliation feeding