The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 1183:

A test to see if Nate would forsake the Quinn family for a woman.

“Miss Quinn… are you really not angry with that woman, Corrine?” the assistant ventured, regretting the words the moment they escaped her lips.

Elva’s silence was more unnerving than anger.

Growing anxious, the assistant glanced at her through the rearview mirror. Her voice, hesitant, tiptoed on. “With Nate’s status… who else on the Independent Continent could be more suited for him than you? The marriage was arranged by your grandmother and Ralph. Yet Nate disregards your position and brings back an unknown woman, openly defying both you and your grandmother.”

“Are you finished?” Elva’s voice was soft—deceptively so.

A chill ran down the assistant’s spine.

She swallowed hard and nodded stiffly. “Yes… yes, I’m done.”

things to me,” she said, her voice measured, “but if outsiders hear

assistant’s breath

against her hand, her gaze fixed on the distant horizon where the sky kissed the sea. Her eyes, however, held no trace of

they did not throw themselves at men. Unlike Rosalie,

how she carried herself, people still linked her name to Nate. In all

families wasn’t a mere possibility—it was destiny,

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gossip were beneath her. She never bothered

with Nate parading Corrine around, those rumors had taken a new

dangerous thing—irrational and blind. Striking now would only make him cling

pride and chose to

all, was a weapon of its own. She would wait for the moment Nate’s passion dimmed and Corrine became yesterday’s news. She would wait for the Hopkins family to grow weary