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.

would he be giving her a bracelet and inviting her to a

there is to it,” Corrine insisted,

into a knowing half-smile, his eyes gleaming with

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flicker of irritation in his expression and couldn’t hold back a

“Nate, are you jealous?”

turned his face away—shoulders squared, lips pursed in

screamed that he was upset and that she should make it up to

palm and tilting his face back toward hers. Then, mirroring his usual assertiveness, she pulled him in for a kiss. She mimicked

unravel under her playful assault. His arm tightened around her waist, his other hand sliding to the back of her head as he pressed her

kiss was fierce, with a hunger that sent heat curling down her spine. Though she struggled to keep up, she made no effort to