The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 707

Chapter 707 Storm Over Ashen Pact

“No matter who took her, I’ll stir Ashen Pact’s waters until they drown in it,” Marie snapped.

Someone had stolen Tessa from under her nose. That, she could never forgive.

She shot Sophia a hard look. “Go. Spread the word–whoever dares touch Tessa, I’ll personally twist his head off.”

Sophia nodded quickly. “Got it.”

Derrick’s analysis had left Marie more frenzied than before. The thought of leaving Noctarth never even crossed her mind now.

Until she found Tessa, she wasn’t stopping.

But even as her threat spread, Dan received word of it.

When Conan reported, Dan narrowed his eyes. “So who exactly took Tessa?”

The uncertainty gnawed at him.

Marie’s declaration sounded less like a search and more like a demand for Ashen Pact to hand Tessa over.

When she first came storming in, he hadn’t thought too deeply about who might have taken the girl. But now, hearing this–his thoughts spun out of control,

He knew Marie’s temper.

And this tone of hers… she was declaring war on Ashen Pact itself.

Conan’s voice was careful. “We don’t know yet. But by her words, she’s putting the entire Ashen Pact on notice. And if they don’t hand Tessa over…”

“…Then the trouble’s just beginning,” Dan finished bitterly.

Ashen Pact was chaotic enough already.

chaos behind closed doors was

stuck her hand in, outside powers would stick theirs in

proven to have infiltrated

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more worried about Victor,” Conan

convinced Tessa is in Ashen Pact. That means

cut him off,

wasn’t just Abraham’s trusted lieutenant. He held power of his own, a force

years,

And now-

dragged

meant Abraham himself was at the

The entire game

spun out of

Black Mountain.

out of the car and

it had

felt cold, unwelcoming, as though every

old butler, Lenny, was waiting as if he’d known Dan would

was nothing more

his eyes said it all–respect in posture, but contempt lurking beneath lowered

All because of her.

voice even. “Your grandfather is waiting in

that woman?”

made it clear: if she was there, he wouldn’t

in.

in the infirmary with Miss Lana,”

Artemis.

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Lina, and Manny’s true

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