The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 496 You Think I Wanna Die Too

What if they actually pinned a real charge on me in the end–that’d be it for me. They were already itching to kill me when I was just a spect. If something real came up, they’d probably shoot me on the spot without thinking twice. That thought completely shattered Tessa’s composure.

Victor glanced at her; she said nothing.

The silence only made Tessa more anxious. “I mean, no one’s right a hundred percent of the time, right?”

There was no way she could stake her life on a mistake from his people.

Victor said coldly, “If they’re wrong, they’re dead.”

Tessa was stunned.

So the people doing the digging would die… but what about her

She looked over at Victor and met his dangerous gaze, Swallowing hard, she said nothing in the end.

She finally understood–there was no reasoning with a bandit.

Tessa was starting to unravel. She trudged downstairs, head drooping, with no energy left in her at all.

Silas had acted quickly and already found a chef for the villa, but there were still no other servants.

When the chef saw her, she greeted her respectfully, “Good day, Ms. Tessa

“Mm, hi, Tessa replied weakly.

The chef handed her a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. “This is for Sir; could you please take it up to his room!”

When Silas brought her here, he had made it very clear–she wasn’t to enter the study or Victor’s bedroom.

He even said it was best if she didn’t go upstairs at all.

But since Victor never came downstairs, the only option was to ask Tessa to deliver it.

The moment the chef asked her to bring the juice to Victor, Tessa’s mind flashed with every bit of trouble she’d stirred up around him over the past few days.

blared in her

head quickly. “No, no, I’m not doing anything

that juice–if Victor had a bad reaction, she’d never be able to clear her

with her own hands–now,

Tessa would get involved with anything related

The chef blinked, confused.

it up yourself,”

absolutely determined to steer clear of anything that had

allowed in sir’s room or the

down

taking it up

chef was stunned. Get him

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Think

She wouldn’t dare.

“Or just leave it at his door. No need

said if I touched something

went quiet. Things you

thing to

you entered Victor’s space without his permission, you might not live

He can come

was stunned

matter what was said. Tessa absolutely refused to handle anything related

as the chef was about to say more, Tessa’s phone rang. It

Tessa answered. “Stella?”

connection to Ashen Pact?”

made Tessa freeze for a second. “None at all–why

mother was a proper, law–abiding businesswoman. What connection could she possibly

Pact!

way

relationship, it would be one where Ashen Pact had captured

why they’d target a proper businesswoman like her

sounded puzzled