The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 600:

He was shielding her.

For years, Nate had kept women at a distance, yet now he was going out of his way to protect this one. How intriguing.

“Ms. Hopkins, where to now?” the driver asked cautiously from the front seat.

Andromache blinked, dragged from her thoughts. She leaned back, exhaling slowly, her voice languid.

“Take me to see my mother.”

After Andromache’s departure, the chill in Nate’s expression lingered. His grip on Corrine’s hand remained firm, his tension palpable.

Corrine’s gaze drifted to a black box on the table.

“What is that?”

Nate followed her line of sight.

“A gift from Andromache.”

gift?” Her brow arched slightly, curiosity glinting in her eyes. Nate studied her for

next month is my

widened. She sprang to her feet, staring at

only telling me this now?

still two weeks left. That was

prepare anything,” Nate said smoothly, pulling her onto his lap

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you already know what

tilting

would that

yet there was an unspoken allure in the way she looked at him—a softness that stirred something deep inside him. A muscle in Nate’s jaw tightened. His arm curled around her waist, his

it was not until Corrine’s lips tingled from the pressure that he finally

over her slightly swollen lips, his gaze dark and unreadable, as if he were searching for something buried deep within

breath was warm against her skin as he

low, deliberate—spoken not as a request, but as an unshakable truth. The faintest smirk tugging at his lips made it all the more

a shallow