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.

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

him.

Derrick asked evenly,

of his voice carried more

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so calmly while forcing Dan into a corner, she clicked her

Marie could reply, she added, “And this is exactly what you said–hatred born from a

imagined the one turning Dan’s fortress upside

cracked. He

roared,

His

as he glared at Derrick. Then, with

rage had consumed

he would make sure the man

clashed violently,

up. “Sir–bad news. Ms. Miller

Dan froze.

Conan did too.

but to Dan,

His

the man.

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

that instant, he felt as if he were standing on the very tip of a storm, all its fury about to crash down upon

elders‘ council, Ms. Miller

Dan was utterly speechless.

The elders‘ council.