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 Ashen Pact?

some kind

long as she could remember, she’d always

said calmly. “It’s no

Tessa froze. No mistake?

Wait, then-

current leader of the

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“Brother and sister.”

twitched. Brother and

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

Now suddenly, I have

only child her whole life, had every

brother, you’ve

So it’s not just

“And back at the airport… he looked like he wanted

had said it was complicated; this was

took half of the Ashen Pact’s map when she left years

a map?” Tessa

Victor nodded.

that man?”

man, Victor’s so–called

was solid, something about it didn’t

seem like the man had cared for her mother at

Victor hesitated. “That man…”

at her, then decided

Pact’s internal situation was already a

it was in total chaos–pressured from within and without. Your father

“Why?” Tessa asked.

had someone he cared about most–someone he wanted

silent. The one

the mother of those three siblings?” she

Victor nodded. “Yes.”

chose to stay in the shadows

because of that woman, he pushed her mother into the

faced endless conflict and danger. She was injured more than

Tessa sat quietly, listening,

this tangled web of a