The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 1040:

Tightening her grip on her fork and knife, Rosalie cut through her food with restrained anger.

After Corrine finished her meal, she carefully placed her napkin down and stood up. “I need to use the restroom. Please continue without me.”

“I’ll go with you,” Nate said, putting down his utensils, ready to rise, but Corrine gently pressed her hand to his shoulder.

“No need. Mandy is coming with me.” With that, she left.

After Corrine’s departure, Rosalie couldn’t hold back her curiosity and asked Doug, “Did you really see her at that elite military skills competition?”

“She confirmed it herself,” Doug replied.

At that moment, Nate took a sip of his wine, setting the glass down with a soft, yet deliberate sound, almost like an unspoken warning.

it hard to believe…” She had always thought Corrine was just

had really participated in an elite military competition, that

remained composed,

witnessed Corrine take

skills. But now, they realized how naive

at Nate, and remarked,

had caught his attention. But now, he saw how easily that striking appearance could mask her

“The heiress of the Ford family, the wealthiest family in Lyhaton, should not be

the Ford family’s immense wealth, it

Ford family stemmed only from

free

a staff member to the sky garden, where the night seemed to merge seamlessly with the garden’s lush

floated in the