The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 720

er 720 The Calm After Tears

If any servants really had been bought off, Madam Evelyn would show no mercy.

The butler’s face hardened. “Rest assured, I’ve already begun the investigation.”

The package alone proved this was no small matter. The timing was too precise.

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For so long, nothing had happened while Abraham was home, and yet the moment he left on a trip, someone pulled this vile trick.

“From now on,” Evelyn said coldly, “all parcels and mail are to be strictly monitored–especially anything meant for Stella or Rongchuan.”

“Understood. Leave it to me.”

Orders already flowed down through the household staff.

But Evelyn’s eyes glinted with lethal intent. Whoever dared make a move under her roof–she would skin them alive.

Downstairs, Abraham coaxed Stella into eating more than she thought she could.

“Not another sip,” she protested, pressing a hand to her rounded belly.

Seeing her so full, he chuckled and set the soup aside. “All right, no more.”

Just then, Marie’s name flashed on his phone. Abraham rubbed Stella’s hair gently.

“Marie’s calling. I’ll answer.”

Stella nodded, meek again. “Okay.”

easy to soothe–Abraham only had to wrap her in steady words,

aside

“Talk.”

were you? I called

him. The second

plane,” Abraham

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Stella called me bawling her eyes out! What’s going on? You’ve

you, didn’t he? Get back

said calmly,

Marie blinked. “That fast?

“She’s eating.”

Marie: “…”

Eating? Already?

huge, and Stella had cried herself raw–yet just

“She’s not crying anymore?”

She’s calm now. Eating

exhaled in relief. If she was calm, then the

how

to be this easy to

ignored the question. “Tessa–have you

bring that up,

he mentioned Tessa, her headache returned full

think Tessa might already be dead in the hands of the Morris family.

voice stayed flat.

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