The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 663:

“You saw us?”

Nate toyed with the bracelet, his jaw tightening. There was a restrained impatience in the way he held it—like he was debating whether to rip it off.

“By the sound of it, you’d rather I hadn’t?”

“He’s just an old childhood friend,” Corrine sighed, turning in his arms to face him.

“The Ford and Seymour families have always been close. We used to play together all the time when we were kids. But as we grew up, we drifted apart. He came back probably because Quentin asked him to take over the family business.”

Nate’s eyes flickered with something unreadable. He echoed her words slowly, deliberately.

“Just a childhood friend, huh?” A man could read another man’s intentions a mile away.

It was obvious—Hodge had feelings for her.

giving her a

there is to it,” Corrine

into a knowing half-smile, his eyes gleaming with

in that case, I’ll take care

frowned, instinctively grabbing his

do you mean by

chat. To help him…

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺: gⲁ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀⩶𝓬𝗈𝗺

his

“Nate, are you jealous?”

turned his face away—shoulders squared, lips pursed in a stubborn

upset and that she should make it up

her palm and tilting his face back toward hers. Then, mirroring

didn’t take long for Nate to unravel under her playful assault. His arm tightened around her waist, his other hand sliding to the back of her head as

fierce, with a hunger that sent heat curling down her spine.