The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 706 Tangled Bloodlines

The faint brush of Marie’s weak struggle–if one hadn’t known her before–could easily be mistaken for the gentle nuzzle of a kitten.

And the way she cursed him, breathless and soft, only made her look like a ruffled little cat with no claws left.

At the words “hard–to–get,” she’d already been fuming. Now Derrick dared accuse her of “rubbing against him“? That made her snap.

“Who the hell’s rubbing on you? You stink so bad I’d suffocate before I did that!”

Her fury was adorable, a puffed–up kitten baring tiny teeth.

Derrick chuckled low. “See? You’re doing it again.”

He held her wrist with ease, no resistance at all. Something that never would have happened with the old Marie.

And when she failed to break free, she looked exactly as he said—fragile, like some coy debutante pretending to resist.

Sebastian watched the scene, and to him it looked like bickering lovers.

He cleared his throat twice. “Come on, let’s go. Don’t disturb their… newlywed moment.”

He waved the others off and even slung an arm around Sophia’s shoulder, steering her toward a car. “Don’t worry, they’re together. Safe and perfectly legal.”

“Wait, that’s not-” Sophia started.

She wanted to explain Marie was still under the drug’s effect.

But Marie was already exploding from Derrick and Sebastian’s teasing.

“I was drugged, you idiots! Can’t you see?”

killed the air in

flickered across

uneasy, asked, “Should we leave now? I can request a jet immediately.

Derrick’s gaze dropped to the limp woman in his

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Chapter 706 Tangled Bloodlines

staying in Noctarth for

“A week?”

at once–Derrick wanted

+8 Pearis

but drugging Marie? That was a blade

around,” Marie

Tessa? Have you even

Marie was speechless.

name made her chest ache.

quickly told Derrick she had already

gaze returned to Marie, darker now, weighing thoughts. Then he spoke. “What if

took her?”

Marie blinked. “Dale?”

That was Tessa’s father.

of Ashen Pact. If he wanted to spirit her away,

her father,” Marie said,

taken Tessa, wouldn’t she be safer than with

all, he wouldn’t harm his own

Derrick

were nothing but tools. He never loved Diana, nor Dan’s mother. And he sure as hell never

you still think

couldn’t say a

hit