The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 365 Everything Went Wrong

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Tessa tucked herself under the blanket, like hiding could somehow make it all go away.

Victor sat across from her. A cigar rested between his fingers as he watched her, eyes sharp and unreadable.

He didn’t say a word, but the silence pressed down like a weight.

Tessa instinctively swallowed. “Uh, c–could you not look at me like that? You’re scaring me…”

Her voice cracked on the word scaring.

She might’ve been bold and fearless back in Rivermount, but in this unfamiliar place, she felt helpless. His eyes are terrifying.

Like a wolf hiding in the dark–one look from him felt like it could rip her apart.

Victor said, “What exactly is my problem?”

Tessa blinked, stunned. Inside, she was falling apart. What the hell?

She barely got a word out when Victor cut her off. “Think carefully before you answer, or else…”

He paused, but he didn’t need to finish. The warning was loud and clear.

Say the wrong thing now, and she was toast.

Oh, come on… Is this really karma? All I did was gossip a little–did it have to blow up this badly? I was just talking behind his back! Did he seriously have to catch me red–handed?

Tessa dropped her head. “I’m sorry.” When things go sideways, apologize first.

raised a brow.

mean it,” she mumbled, her voice shrinking

right now. If this man said he’d prove

stand a chance.

trouble. Swear to God, if I make

brow and flicked the ash from his cigar into the tray. His eyes

made the mistake of looking him in the eye. His gaze was deep, dark, and impossible to read. Her heart jumped, and she quickly looked away.

Everything. Went

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“I didn’t mean you–I was talking about myself. I’m the

her life meant giving

“Oh? So

this situation clearly wasn’t

could tell–if she didn’t give him a straight answer, he wasn’t dropping

worse? Of all the things to say out loud, why did it have to be that? What

Tessa’s mind

and blurted out, T’m bad at everything. I mess up whatever I do. The

enough–surely he’d

watched her trembling hands clinging to the blanket, panic written all over her

chuckled. “A bottomless pit,

Why is he such

clearly not

backfired this

Ten minutes later.

of food in front of her–most of

she looked