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?”

implied that his statement

she added with pointed significance,

it, Grandma,” Nate

came to discuss the engagement token you

as she

sure

smoothly, his

never shared the backstory of our marriage arrangement with the

his family had arranged a marriage for him since adulthood,

uncertainty left him unsure of how the Ford family from Lyhaton was

the elite families of the Independent Continent, an unspoken rule remained: no marriages with outsiders and

the marriage

𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙨Ⳓ𝙘𝙤𝙢

nothing in response to his words for a long stretch, so long that the attending servants braced themselves,

over these details if you intend to end this

of her background, Grandma,”

look came over Evelyn’s face, as though she sought to