The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 512:

She methodically dried her hands, her lips curving into a calculated smile.

“Clarissa, your talent for claiming others’ possessions never ceases to amaze. Is this your measure of cleverness? Or perhaps it’s genetic? Indeed, like mother, like daughter.”

There was no mistaking the bite in her words, the mockery laced within them.

Clarissa maintained her composure, her serenity undisturbed by the verbal assault.

“My acquisitive nature isn’t universal—you’re my chosen target.”

Her clear eyes locked with Corrine’s as her smile widened playfully.

“I always believed you could maintain your cold indifference regardless of circumstances. But now…”

Before she could complete her thought, Corrine’s hand shot forward, fingers wrapping around Clarissa’s throat in one fluid motion.

Corrine’s hand, ice-cold against Clarissa’s neck, made her flinch on instinct.

pressing hard enough to

up her face as the suffocating pressure

brow creased as she struggled to force out a single

you really

her gaze locking onto Corrine’s with a strange

More 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝓲𝓷 gⲁ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀⧽ⅽ𝗈𝗺

an unsettling calm, tinged with something almost

her, pinned against the cold wall,

whispered near Clarissa’s ear, her voice laced with

Holland, I’m warning

into a playful

care more than you

her fingers digging in

and I swear, you’ll never

she was barely holding

me your sister again.

you don’t want to hear it,

with unshed tears,