The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 548 The Slip of the Tongue

Dan’s fiancée was none other than the daughter of Frapucu’s deputy mayor.

Just like that, Dan found himself caught in a deadlock.

Even his usually calm and composed eyes turned

grave.

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Over at the Dawson family’s estate-

Stella was lounging on the couch, chatting with Tessa over the phone. Ever since returning to Falvaria, Tessa had been calling her nonstop.

To be honest, Stella had started getting nervous every time she saw Tessa’s name pop up–because she never knew what kind of disaster was waiting on the other end.

Like right now.

As soon as she answered, the first thing out of her mouth was, “Spill it. What did you strip off Victor this time?”

Tessa’s habit of causing mayhem with a spicy twist was something Stella had long gotten used to.

But more than anything, she worried that one day, Tessa would really push Victor too far.

Tessa: “I didn’t strip him this time.”

Stella let out a huge sigh of relief. “Good, good. As long as you didn’t.”

She was seriously afraid Tessa had peeled something off Victor again. Because when it came to that kind of problem, she had absolutely no way to help clean up the mess.

Just as she began to relax, happy that–for once–Tessa hadn’t created chaos around Victor…

She barely had three seconds of peace before-

Tessa spoke again, voice utterly dead inside: “But I… said I’d marry him.”

…Huh?

did she say to

Marry him?

was that? What kind of twisted new mess was

Stella’s brain froze completely.

took her a full few minutes

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said you’d

to be

way she’d actually just heard Tessa say she wanted

die. “Yeah, I want to crawl

How bad was it?

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level of secondhand

she couldn’t

deep breaths to steady her nerves,

This was

don’t even want this mouth

these hands,

get rid of whatever part of her brain

she be

her own misery, a lightbulb suddenly went off in Stella’s head–and she shot

have to wonder–were all those little ‘accidents‘

No way…

denied it. And she was telling the

on. “Then why were you always pulling

me–back when you unbuckled his belt

way this was all lining

now,

hadn’t already had feelings for Victor, how could she

all connected… a straight

not! Stella, how could you not believe me? Do I look like

“Relax. Even if you were, I’d still

the unconditional

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