The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 708 The Fractured House

To Dale, everything Dan had unleashed was nothing less than a deliberate attempt to drag outside powers in and destroy Ashen Pact.

After all, this mess now reached Abraham himself.

Dan gave no answer. He simply pulled out a chair and sat directly across from Dale.

His silence only deepened Dale’s scowl. “Dan, no matter how we fight, it’s still family business. But you-”

The word family darkened Dan’s face. He cut him off coldly. “Quarrels between family count as family business. Am I your family?”

Family business?

Ha. After all these years, it was the first time I have ever heard Dale call their strife that.

His voice dripped with irony.

Dale’s eyes narrowed. “Tessa. Was it you who took her?”

The name left his mouth without a trace of warmth.

No tenderness for his daughter–only indifference.

Indifference so stark it was as if Tessa had no right to exist at all.

The same indifference he had shown Dan for a lifetime.

Perhaps once, when Dan was still a toddler, Dale had been a father in truth. But from the moment Dan’s memories began, Dale had never treated him as a son.

born of

sharp and mocking. “Listen to yourself.

Dale’s voice turned sharp,

I say?” Dan leaned back lazily. “Victor and Marie both believe Ashen

pause hang,

face sank deeper into

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lips curved in a vicious smile. “Especially Victor. Surprised, aren’t you? That Diana’s daughter turned out to be his treasure.

hand–his woman. That was a

open.

jaw clenched. “What are you getting

sneered. “Don’t dump your filth on me. Marie’s already torn my grounds. apart, and

eyes locked, sharp as

your dirty water won’t

twisted black. “I didn’t take

to tell Victor that. Whether he believes you… that’s another matter.

pressed down like

at Dale’s temples. He hadn’t known Victor himself was coming to Noctarth. Not until Marie’s

Ashen Pact was

leaning over the desk, looming

it your people?

cut sharp–who had

take the blame in front of Marie. And someone would pay

mouth,” Dale

wavered. Was