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

flickered across

can request a jet immediately. This is Dan’s

Derrick’s gaze dropped to the limp woman in his arms. A cold laugh escaped

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Chapter 706 Tangled Bloodlines

I’m staying in Noctarth

“A week?”

at

+8 Pearis

things, but drugging Marie? That was a blade

joke around,” Marie

Tessa?

Marie was speechless.

chest ache. She

Derrick she had already searched the entire castle–no trace

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

took her?”

Marie blinked. “Dale?”

That was Tessa’s father.

head of Ashen Pact. If he wanted to spirit

her father,” Marie said,

Dale had taken Tessa, wouldn’t she be

all, he wouldn’t harm

Derrick

were nothing but tools. He never loved Diana, nor Dan’s

“So tell me–do you still think Tessa is

say a

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