The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 438 Maybe He Really Can’t

Tessa and Victor were from totally different worlds. His behavior? Yeah, to her, it probably felt like another planet.

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Chapter 439 A Dangerous Alliance

Chapter 439 A Dangerous Alliance

Of course she was on edge all the time–anyone would be.

“All right, all right, I’m flying out tonight. Don’t be scared, okay?”

Stella kept her tone as gentle as possible.

Tessa sniffled. “You better not be lying to me.”

“I’m not. Promise.”

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They stayed on the phone for a while longer, with Stella giving her all kinds of reassurances that nothing would go wrong. Only then did Tessa finally hang up.

She was genuinely traumatized.

She’d never seen anything like that in her life. Back when Stella’s world first collapsed, she’d been even more scared than Tessa was now.

A familiar presence suddenly enveloped her. Stella jumped.

She

pair of deep, dark eyes.

an eyebrow.

Wait, he heard that?

when exactly did

didn’t answer. Instead, she changed the

made a soft grunt

“Did something happen

in such a rush, asking if

than something major going down with

said, “Don’t concern yourself

So something had happened. No

moment, she said, “Sharon didn’t cause any trouble that day. Don’t go dragging

a curious

was holding Jasmine. Tried to

like she was breaking things up, sure. But was she, really? Because the way she pulled, it turned

was about to say something else about Jasmine

and got up to

just settling in again when a housekeeper came to announce, “Ms. Stella, there’s

Sutton? Ethan’s sister.

Stella might’ve even gotten

sharp and efficient–very much a woman

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been born a man, Ethan probably wouldn’t have stood a chance at inheriting the Keene

that they’d brought Horgan back into the picture, maybe

didn’t have a

to

“Yes, ma’am.”

nodded

got up and changed before

examining one of her teacups. The girl