The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 407:

Once Corrine had exited, Evelyn’s smile dimmed.

“Now that she’s not here, tell me what’s on your mind.”

At this, Nate let out a laugh, his look toward Evelyn filled with a knowing depth.

“You always had the knack to see through pretenses, Grandma.”

“Enough with the charm,” Evelyn said, dismissing him with a light scoff.

“Having a girlfriend has turned you into quite the charmer.”

Nate rubbed his nose awkwardly before saying calmly, “Corrine is your future granddaughter-in-law, set to carry on the Hopkins family name.” His delivery was relaxed, almost casual, but his statement cut through the air with surprising firmness.

Evelyn’s face showed no change, her voice steady.

“Wasn’t that decision already made?”

that his

she added with pointed significance, “That’s not

it, Grandma,” Nate

the

eyebrows knitted together as she met his

sure

answered smoothly, his gaze locking with

the backstory of our marriage arrangement

had known his family had arranged a marriage for him since adulthood, but he was still

unsure of how the Ford family

elite families of the Independent Continent, an unspoken rule remained: no

about the marriage arrangement’s origins only

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response to his words for a long stretch, so long that the attending servants braced themselves, expecting an

Evelyn asked, “Why obsess over these details if you

seem unaware of her background, Grandma,” Nate

as though she sought