The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 617 Surprise! You Have Siblings

“Tell Ms. Diana I must see her.”

With that, Victor hung up the phone.

He turned and glanced at Tessa, just in time to meet her bleary, glassy eyes.

“You’re awake?”

Tessa gave a weak nod, still looking pale and sickly.

Victor walked over to the bed and touched her forehead. “The fever’s mostly gone down.”

A woman with a high fever… was more trouble than he’d imagined.

Tessa looked at him with wide, doe–like eyes. “The Ms. Diana you mentioned on the phone… was that my mom?”

At the mention of her mother, a flicker of worry crossed her face. After everything that had happened, she finally understood just how completely her world had been turned upside down.

And no one could help her now…

The Ashen Pact, what kind of tangled, dangerous place was that?

Victor nodded. “Yeah.”

“What did you talk about?” Tessa asked.

Victor looked at her but said nothing.

The way he hesitated made Tessa’s heart leap into her throat.

After a moment, Victor said, “Don’t worry too much. The conflict between her and the Ashen Pact isn’t fatal; they’re not out to kill her.”

“What do you mean?”

Victor replied, “It’s just… complicated.”

“Complicated?”

“Yeah,” he said with a nod. Some of the Ashen Pact’s records had been sealed for years; digging up the truth hadn’t been easy.

But in the end, they had managed to piece it together.

“How complicated are we talking?” she asked.

Victor answered, “Your father… is the father of the Ashen Pact’s current leader.”

Tessa blinked. “What?”

current head of the

this some kind of

as she could remember,

calmly. “It’s

Tessa froze. No mistake?

Wait, then-

current leader of

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“Brother and sister.”

twitched. Brother and

I didn’t just gain a dad out of nowhere–I

Now suddenly, I

her whole life, had every advantage

added, “Not just a brother, you’ve got two

not just one sibling, it’s a

why did he take my mom?” she asked. “And back at the airport… he looked like he

Victor had said it was complicated;

because your mother took half of the

map?” Tessa

Victor nodded.

that man?”

Victor’s so–called

something

seem like the man had

Victor hesitated. “That man…”

glanced at her, then decided she deserved

was already a mess; Tessa’s identity made it

your mother took over the Ashen Pact, it was in total chaos–pressured from within and without. Your father chose to step back at that time, but the truth is… he

“Why?” Tessa asked.

someone he cared

went silent. The one he cared

of

Victor nodded. “Yes.”

man chose to stay in the shadows because of

he pushed

woman existed, Victor said. “During her time as leader, she faced endless conflict and danger. She was injured more than once. The worst time, she almost lost you while you were still in the

Tessa sat quietly, listening,

tangled web of