The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 568 The Man with a Death Wish

Abel said, “It’s true. Right after Miss Stella hit her, Lilian was hospitalized and diagnosed with a whole bunch of conditions.”

“A whole bunch?” Marie raised an eyebrow.

“So she tried to act all fragile and pin the blame on my poor Stella?”

If that were the case, she’d definitely make another trip to Rivermount just to teach Lilian a second lesson.

Abel replied, “There was no way to blame her. Illness and being beaten up are completely separate things.”

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Marie nodded. “Good point.”

Abel continued, “But after that, there was a whole series of moves designed to drive a wedge between Miss Stella and the Reed family.”

Marie snorted. “The Reed family? Who even cares about them? That relationship was never worth anything to begin with.”

“Exactly. That’s Miss Stella’s attitude too. So afterward, both Ethan and Jonathan got beaten up. Pretty badly.”

Good. The worse, the better. If it hadn’t been bad enough, she’d have to go finish the job herself.

She’d actually been trying to clear her schedule lately to head back to Rivermount and deal a few more blows.

But Derrick and Dan, those two damn nuisances, had been keeping her tied up.

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Just as Marie was about to say more, her phone rang. It was Dan.

She declined the call immediately.

Speak of the devil.

The moment she hung up, he called again. Marie blocked the number without hesitation.

Then an unfamiliar number texted her: Want me to wait for you outside the Dawson family estate?

This lunatic!

She called the number directly. He picked up almost immediately, and she spoke first: “Say it. What do you want?”

“Divorce Derrick.

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twitched. “Are you

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thought he could just

“Tomorrow. Ten a.m. I’ll be waiting outside the civil affairs

He trailed off ominously.

gritted teeth over the

days, maybe a week,

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only because it was nighttime–otherwise, he

the hell was he doing waiting outside the civil affairs office if

are you

She honestly didn’t understand.

had been tossed into chaos lately. Everything these people did came one after another with no rhyme or reason. It was frying her

to see it with my

needed to see them divorce,

Derrick? He couldn’t even relax without personally witnessing

he could

could they not get divorced–if Dan kept stirring the pot, Derrick might just skin

in a breath. “Are you still

“… Why?”

to check if the neurologist is still on

got a

there’s no way

Dan growled, “Marie!”

Go get your brain checked. You might even need

seriously had

hung up without another

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