The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 604 The Setup

Stella went quiet.

She and Marie locked eyes, and for a second, Stella struggled to keep a straight face..

Marie let out a sharp breath and hung up the call, then turned to Stella. “Didn’t we agree this had to be someone familiar?”

Stella looked surprised.

Wait… it wasn’tMorris?

“Whoever did this clearly knew something about you. Everyone in Falvaria knows who you are. You think any random guy would dare come after you?”

Marie shook her head. “Not a chance.”

“Exactly,” Stella said. “So it’s either Morris trying to get back at you for marrying Derrick, or someone’s out to screw you over–on purpose.”

Marie fell silent. Revenge? A setup?

“But didn’t Morris’s guys just say he was with them the whole night?” she asked.

So that means… it wasn’t Morris last night? Shit. That made things a whole lot worse.

Stella nodded. “Which only leaves one option–someone’s deliberately targeting you.”

Marie sat still.

Targeting her? In Falvaria? Who’d even dare?

Stella looked at her seriously. “Whoever it was had to hate you enough to risk everything. They knew what they were doing.”

No doubt. In Stella’s eyes, only someone with a death wish would come after Marie. If someone really did, it meant they wanted to destroy her completely.

“Hate me?” Marie muttered, her mind suddenly fuzzy.

“Can you think of another reason?”

Marie muttered, “If we’re talking about people in Falvaria who hate me, that list is actually kind of long.”

She wasn’t wrong. There were plenty who didn’t like her.

Stella waved that off. “Those people are just jealous. That’s not the same as hate.”

That was true. Most of those people didn’t hate her–they were just

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Which meant…

if it wasn’t Morris, then it was someone who seriously wants to destroy

Lillian used to pull stunts like this all the time. Sweet

Rivermount was just

hates me… really, truly

softly, mind racing,

feel even slightly guilty for beating Morris

figuring out

a name popped into

“Wait–I’ve got it.”

“Who?” Stella asked quickly.

hand, snapping her fingers. “What’s her name

a

over me lately, and Ella’s his fiancée.

my guts.”

she comes

it now… Morris’s beatdown this morning didn’t even

the reason she

lot of

the dining chair crashing to the floor behind

Ella might’ve been the one who

going to kill

She wasn’t the type to let something

Stella could react, Marie

gun slipped, and it hit the ground–but she recovered instantly, grabbed it, and stormed out without

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Stella blinked. “Uh…”

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