The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 1322:

Dewey’s face tightened, his head lowering as his eyes flicked nervously over Nate’s features, trying to discern his thoughts.

Nate remained an enigma, his expression unreadable, a mask of calm that betrayed no hint of emotion.

Yet Dewey clung to a sliver of confidence. After all, he was a father—a father with the right to discipline his child. No matter how powerful Nate was, he couldn’t interfere in a matter so personal, could he?

This thought gave Dewey a bit of courage.

Just as Dewey straightened his spine, ready to stand firm, Nate’s cold voice sliced through the air. “Your father?”

Corrine’s face was unreadable, but her eyes gleamed with a frosty light as she replied, “No.”

voice rising in a crescendo of fury. “Corrine, what nonsense are you speaking? How dare you deny me as your

those words, Nate’s gaze flickered

like a blade poised at his

was suffocating, the quiet force behind it so powerful that Dewey’s words seemed to evaporate before they could leave his

heard you mention your father before. I thought he was dead,” Nate said slowly, his voice as cold as a

next words to Dewey. “All these years without contact. It would be better for you to remain a ghost,

carried a hidden threat, like

𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩: g𝗮𝗅𝗇𝗈𝗏𝗲𝗅𝘀꞉𝗰𝗼𝗺

gaze flickered nervously

instinct screamed that if his

but before he

who knew when he’d have the chance to speak to her