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 Artemis counted

sharp and mocking. “Listen to yourself.

Dale’s voice turned sharp,

Ashen Pact took her. If you can’t produce her, guess what they’ll

the pause

sank deeper

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

lethal blade in Abraham’s hand–his woman. That was

open.

“What are

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

eyes locked,

water

black.

that’s another matter. And I doubt you have what it takes

down like a

himself was

Pact was

the desk, looming

your people? Or

cut sharp–who

to take the blame in front of Marie. And

your mouth,”

certainty wavered. Was it