Chapter 731 Hidden Motives

Victor pinched her check gently, his gaze soft. “It’s true.”

Hearing him say it so firmly, Tessa finally nodded, though her heart still wavered with unease. It had been far too long since she’d last seen her mother.

“Right, we also found this near Silas,” Victor added.

He pulled something from his pocket and placed it in her hand.

Tessa studied it, and the moment she recognized what it was, her tightly knitted brows eased.

Victor frowned slightly. “What is it?”

“She’s fine,” Tessa said with certainty.

She remembered this item–her mother had once shown it to her along with another object.

Back then, her mother had told her: if she ever left one of them behind, it meant she was safe and Tessa could rest easy.

But if it was the other one, that meant danger–Tessa had to hide immediately in the safest place she could find.

“Now can we go out to eat?” Victor asked, noticing the relief on her face.

“Wait, I still have another question.”

“Hm?”

“Why doesn’t Marie know you were the one who took me? You told me she did.”,

That day, when she wanted to call Marie herself, Victor had clearly told her Marie already knew.

Victor fell silent.

Tessa pressed. “I

Everything lately had been messy enough, and her thoughts were in disarray. After that call with Stella, they

know,” Victor

“What?”

brother told me not to tell

“Abraham?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

he mean,

her calls from Stella too, then Stella hadn’t

Abraham had deliberately hidden it from both

did he

replied flatly. “But if he says not to tell, then we don’t. And you’d better

face and steady tone, Victor neatly

the blame onto Abraham.

dare question it further. And as curious and gossipy

can I at least ask

Would that anger Abraham?

survival. Trouble followed

to mind her the last thing she wanted

handle that,” Victor cut her off. “When you call the little princess, don’t run your mouth.

nearby, Lewis stared, stunned. Victor said it all with such confidence that

nodded obediently.

that, Victor

frowned again. “Isn’t this wrong,

“Hm?”

said Marie’s been going crazy in the Ashen Pact looking for me. If she finds out I was with you

the Ashen

didn’t address what Marie would do when she found out.

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