Chapter 710 The Poison Beneath

“Dale’s saving everything for Manny. You, Dan–you’re nothing in his eyes.”

The word nothing dripped sharp from Derrick’s tongue.

Dan’s laugh was bitter. “Fine. I’m nothing. You’re everything, is that it?”

“Mm. I’m still Marie’s husband.”

Marie couldn’t say a word.

Marie nearly choked. Childish, much?

Dan’s fury boiled through the receiver. “Then take her and get the hell out of Noctarth. Get out and never come back!”

“You drugged her and now you tell me to leave? What does that make me–less than a man?” Derrick’s voice was like steel.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“It means if Tessa isn’t handed over, we’re not done with Ashen Pact. Dan, if you don’t want this place ripped apart, then produce her.”

Marie blaming him was one thing–her mind had long since been poisoned against him. In her eyes, every crime wore his name.

But Derrick too? Did he really have no brains left?

Dan’s chest burned, his breath hot with rage. “Enough! I didn’t take her. Derrick, are you even a man? The last shitstorm, I took the fall for you. And now with Tessa, you and Marie both dump it on me again?”

The more he spoke, the hotter his blood surged.

people to beat him and

Over that.

had been beaten on

Derrick dared say he was the one with

sharp. “I don’t have time for your

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Ashen Pact was still his mother’s dying charge. He couldn’t destroy it. He couldn’t walk away from

Derrick said coldly, “and we’ll leave

family had taken

not a

Then

you–I didn’t!” Dan

was enough to drive him

your father and your

Dale

he could retort,

temples pounded

around. Back

handed over, Derrick and Marie would tear Ashen Pact apart piece by

Damn lunatics.

he regretted stepping into Marie’s sight so soon. He should have waited until Ashen Pact’s storm had passed. But instead… he had let himself

only

Twenty minutes later.

to face Dale again. This time Artemis

sight of him, Artemis

even glance her

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