The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 709

Chapter 709 Lines in the Sand

“You-” Dale began, but Dan was already pushing back his chair.

“I don’t want the seat of Ashen Pact’s ruler anymore. Once I walk out that door, I’ll announce it belongs to Manny.”

“You dare!” Dale roared.

He wasn’t stupid. Declaring such a thing now would paint a target on Manny’s back, leaving him torn apart by Victor’s faction and the Dawson family both.

The slam of the door was Dan’s only reply.

Dale nearly burst a vessel from the rage.

Meanwhile, Tessa sat on a plane with Victor.

Because he had told her earlier that he’d taken her away with Marie’s knowledge, she had no reason to doubt him. She had no idea Ashen Pact was already boiling over because of her.

All she could think of was her mother. The worry left her no appetite.

Victor slipped behind her, lifting her easily into his lap.

“Don’t,” she muttered, squirming. Her mother’s plight had left her raw, easily irritated.

“Eat a little,” he said, voice low but firm.

“I don’t want to.”

“If you don’t eat, how are you going to face them later?”

Tessa didn’t reply.

find her mother.

In the

onto the opposite side of Ashen Pact. There

want

a spoonful of oats to her lips.

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but under his

him, she protested, “Let

did he have to hold her like

restless wriggling only hardened his

in Noctarth, Derrick’s bombs had flattened Dan’s

returned from Black Mountain and heard the news, his face

intolerable,” Conan

“Enough.”

him off, expression souring at

once she had given him

But now? Nothing.

would fight him for Derrick. She would

else mattered to

had once held in her heart was

up his phone and

hissed through clenched teeth, “Derrick, you’ll pay for

up his home. How could he swallow that

an irate Marie. Already half–annoyed, he laughed, a sharp, dismissive sound. “You’ve been promising storms for

The insult stung.

didn’t stop. “You put on the act of some ruthless strategist, but after all

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