The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 704 The Edge of Collapse

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Marie didn’t care what Sophia said. She climbed up onto the wall, perching there to watch the chaos unfold.

Was this really a good idea?

Maybe Tessa had rubbed off on her. She couldn’t resist watching a spectacle, no matter the time or place.

Outside the gates, the clash had already broken out in full force. With his castle going up in explosions one after another, Dan finally lost control.

“Derrick, you bastard–you planted people around me!”

The gates were one thing.

But the villas, one by one, reduced to rubble, the cars blown to pieces—all without his men noticing a thing.

There was only one explanation: Derrick had slipped people into his ranks long ago.

Derrick toyed idly with a compact pistol, twirling it between his fingers.

Compared to Dan’s fury, he looked calm, almost casual. “Now you can tell me why my wife bit you.”

He was smiling.

But everyone present knew—if Dan gave an answer Derrick didn’t like, the castle would keep erupting.

Dan’s eyes gleamed with danger. “You’d better stop now, or I’ll see you never walk out of Noctarth alive.”

The words had barely left his lips before Derrick fired into the air. At that same moment, another explosion rocked the castle.

From her vantage point, Marie felt her heart lurch.

God, Dan’s estate was massive. If it weren’t, she

him.

out yourself,” Derrick asked evenly, “or shall

smoothness of his voice carried more menace

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calmly while forcing

is exactly

She never imagined the one turning Dan’s fortress upside down would be

He stepped forward

up!” Dan roared,

His

Then, with

rage had

Noctarth, then he would make sure the man

in full. Both sides clashed violently, the

one of Dan’s men rushed up. “Sir–bad news. Ms. Miller is

Dan froze.

Conan did too.

to Dan,

His

man. “What did

was barely audible, but his heart roared with a single thought: if the long matriarch was missing, every blade of blame would turn on

the very tip of a storm, all its fury about to crash down upon

way to the elders‘ council, Ms. Miller

Dan was utterly speechless.

The elders‘ council.