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.

hard enough

flush crept up her face as the suffocating pressure

creased as she struggled

really this

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an unsettling calm, tinged

pinned against the cold wall, a flicker of malice

whispered near Clarissa’s ear, her

I’m warning you—stay away from

curled into a playful

like you care more than you let

her fingers digging in

one more word, and I swear,

tension in her hand betrayed the restraint she was barely holding onto, her glare searing

sister again. The

want to hear it, I won’t say it

shimmering with unshed tears, catching the dim light like