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?”

father of the current head of the Ashen Pact? Wait,

this some kind

long as she could remember, she’d always known her

said calmly.

Tessa froze. No mistake?

Wait, then-

relationship to the current leader of the Ashen

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“Brother and sister.”

twitched. Brother and

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

Now suddenly, I have

life, had every advantage that

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

it’s not just

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

it was complicated; this was far beyond

your mother took half of the

map?” Tessa

Victor nodded.

that man?” she

man, Victor’s so–called father of

investigation was solid, something about it didn’t sit right

like the man had cared for her mother at

Victor hesitated. “That man…”

at her, then decided

internal situation was already a mess; Tessa’s identity made it

total chaos–pressured from within and without. Your father chose to step back at that time, but the truth is… he had another

“Why?” Tessa asked.

had someone he cared about most–someone

The one

mean the mother of those three

Victor nodded. “Yes.”

to stay in

of that woman, he pushed

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 womb. It was then that she finally learned the

Tessa sat quietly, listening,

this tangled