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.

grip tightened, pressing hard enough to leave Clarissa gasping

crept up her face as the suffocating

pushed against Corrine’s hand, her brow creased as she

you really

her gaze locking

More 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝓲𝓷 gⲁ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀⧽ⅽ𝗈𝗺

Only an unsettling

down at her, pinned against the cold wall, a flicker of malice

close and whispered near Clarissa’s ear, her voice laced with

I’m warning

into a

you care more than

eyes darkened, her fingers digging in

one more word, and I

restraint she was barely

ever call me your sister again. The

don’t want to hear

eyes shimmering with unshed tears, catching the