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

there is to it,” Corrine insisted, holding

a knowing half-smile,

case, I’ll

frowned, instinctively grabbing his

you

just a little chat. To help him… get the right

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺: gⲁ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀⩶𝓬𝗈𝗺

in his expression and

“Nate, are you jealous?”

his face

entire body language screamed that he was upset and that she should

in Corrine’s eyes. She reached up, cupping his chin in her palm and tilting his face back toward hers. Then, mirroring his usual assertiveness, she pulled him in for a kiss. She mimicked the

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

curling down her spine. Though she struggled to keep up, she made no effort to pull