The Jilted Heiress' Return To The High Life

Chapter 1490:

Logically, it was impossible for a six-year-old to forcefully push an adult woman down the stairs.

Despite this, Dewey turned a deaf ear to Corrine’s desperate explanations and conducted no investigation, choosing instead to wholly blame her while she continually professed her innocence.

He had beaten her mercilessly and then ordered the servants to strip her down to a thin nightgown and force her to kneel in the freezing snow without food or warmth until she confessed.

Had her grandfather and uncles not intervened in time, Corrine likely would not have survived that harsh winter day eighteen years ago.

Despite years of neglect, Dewey now audaciously claimed a paternal bond.

Eighteen years ago, he had definitively severed their father-daughter ties, proclaiming that Corrine was no longer a member of the Holland family.

parasite on the family, despite Corrine having been estranged from them for many years.

eyes burning with such intensity it

asked, her voice dripping with indifference. “Did

his gaze dark and fixed on

influence, do you really think

heaving violently as he clenched his jaw. “You little monster! What sin did I commit in my past life to deserve

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what my mother did to

gaze swept over him with

any family affection she might have harbored, leaving her with little patience for this man who

assert paternal