The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 682 Divorce Papers and Delusion

Now he was pulling this act–what else could it be but a performance?

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Dan stood and casually adjusted the sleeve that had been rumpled when he carried her.

“So what do we do now, Marie?”

Marie went quiet. What the hell do you mean, what do we do?

Dan stood at the edge of the bed, looking down at her. Even under such suffocating tension, those peach blossom eyes of his still held a deceptive depth–an illusion of tenderness.

Marie had to admit, once upon a time, she had fallen for that gaze.

All those years he’d been missing…

Whenever she thought of the way he used to look at her, it always brought with it the illusion of affection.

But ever since Dan reappeared…

That illusion shattered completely.

She suddenly remembered what someone once said: “Peach blossom eyes could make even looking at a beast seem full of emotion.”

Dan opened the nightstand drawer as he spoke.

“Your love–it’s not something you can just take back whenever you want.”

Marie was stunned.

What?

Dan said, “You don’t get to decide that.”

Marie snapped, “Are you out of your damn mind?”

Did he think she was some clueless little girl? Like she couldn’t even control her own heart?

Too bad for him–she wasn’t.

Even when she’d loved someone with everything she had, the moment she found out they were a threat to her family, she would crush that so–called love without hesitation.

Dan, as always, acted like he hadn’t heard a word she said.

He pulled out a folder that had clearly been prepared ahead of time. There was even a pen

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Divorce Papers

clipped to it.

handed it to

Marie

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him a cold, unforgiving glare, then cast a glance

The title: “Divorce Agreement.”

short, mocking laugh. “What, trying to play the

that kind of transactional marriage

before they’d even

hell do you think you are, pulling that stunt with

desperate? Starving? That she needed to play some pathetic deal like that

“It’s your

Marie froze.

snapped up to look at him, eyes

the edge of the bed

“Divorce him first. Alright?”

not–that wasn’t the most important

he, the leader of Ashen Pact, was not going to

Marie had to leave

“You son of

Rage boiled up, and she raised her hand to slap him across

time, Dan

it was that night at Spirit

care?!” Marie exploded. “You lying bastard, what was

then?”

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She was furious.

raised her other hand

landed with a sharp

Dan’s face darkened instantly.

and glared at her.

tight, barely

shouldn’t have

that name, Marie immediately recalled what Dan did the night she and Derrick got their

insult to Derrick–it

anger surged, and her fury toward