NovelOnlineChapter 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.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtGrowing 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." Elva's lips curled into a faint smile, devoid of warmth. "You may say these things to me," she said, her voice measured, "but if outsiders hear them... do not blme for being ruthless." The assistant's breath hitched. "Understood." Elva leaned back, resting her head against her hand, her gaze fixed on the distant horizon where the sky kissed the sea. Her eyes, however, held no trace of serenity-only a cold, calculating glint.
The Quinn family was not like the Liam family. Their daughters carried themselves with dignity; they did not throw themselves at men. Unlike Rosalie, who shamelessly chased after affection, Elva would never lower herself to such desperation.
And yet, no matter how she carried herself, people still linked her nto Nate. In all of the Independent Continent, who else could stand on equal footing with him besides her? The marriage alliance between the Quinn and Hopkins families wasn't a mere possibility—it was destiny, etched in stone long before Corrine cinto the picture.
Read more at gvlnovom Flattery and gossip were beneath her. She never bothered to defend herself against either.
But now, with Nate parading Corrine around, those rumors had taken a new shape-one beyond her control.
A man in love was a dangerous thing-irrational and blind. Striking now would only make him cling tighter to Corrine.
So, she swallowed her pride and chose to endure.
Patience, after all, was a weapon of its own. She would wait for the moment Nate's passion dimmed and Corrine becyesterday's news. She would wait for the Hopkins family to grow weary of the scandal and sweep the woman aside.
And she wasn't alone in this waiting game. Ralph, shrewd and calculating surely wouldn't sit idly by and as ever, Agurely let Nate throw the family's future into disarray for the sake of a passing fancy.
For now, Elva needed to test the waters, to see just how deep this? e affair ran Chapter 1183
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