The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 542 The Price of Innocence

So… where exactly had this confidence come from?

“You sure?”

The man’s tone deepened.

Even with the door in between them, his voice carried a pressure that was hard to ignore.

The weight of it snapped Tessa out of her daze, like her drifting soul had suddenly returned to her body.

“I…”

The fear crept back into her voice.

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Victor raised a brow. He clearly noticed something was off. “Open the door. Let me see you.”

“I just want to be alone for a bit.”

Ugh…

She really did just want some quiet right now.

That one sentence made it even clearer to Victor that something wasn’t right with her.

“Open the door.”

This time, his tone was unmistakably firm.

Tessa instinctively rubbed her hands together. Her mind flashed with the image of him climbing in through the balcony.

Yeah, right–no way this door could actually keep him out.

After a few seconds of thought, she finally gave up and opened the door. The first thing she saw was the man’s solid chest.

His shirt was stained with blood…

out. “You’re

halfway through the motion, she suddenly remembered something and yanked her hand

What did his injury have to do with her? Stella had been crystal clear. Don’t

wasn’t trained

for taking care of people–yeah,

every bit of her reaction. Her instinct, her

lifted in a

Her mouth twitched hard.

her head. “No, no, no, I wasn’t thinking anything like that. I

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conlained the

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by that? Did he actually think she’d done all

“No?”

His smile deepened.

at him–her head was ducked the

tone made her face flush red all

didn’t

Ugh-

didn’t believe herself at this point. Just like Stella had said, she had

Tessa’s insides were already crumbling. Why am I so

her body went haywire

reached out with long fingers and gently

to resist, but

tilted her face up, he got a clear look at just how

curled even higher. “You ruined my innocence. What are you

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so deliberately, so clearly emphasized, it was hard to tell whether he was joking or dead

tomato–red, turned

really didn’t do it on

those deep, dark eyes of

sentence.

respond–just smiled

that smile made her

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