The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 740 Must Stay by His Side

The way Victor held her so tightly, if the juice spilled, it would drench them both.

In the end, Tessa’s timid wriggling stopped, leaving her breathless and at his mercy.

Finished

Only when her chest rose and fell too quickly did he finally release her, lips curling. “Not bad. Sweet. Tastes like oranges.”

Her checks flushed crimson.

If not for her inconvenient timing, she was sure this man would have already torn her again.

apart

Victor’s hand squeezed her thigh, his warm breath brushing her neck as his voice dropped to a husky whisper. “I’ll deal with you in a few days.”

“Four,” she blurted.

Victor: “…”

“Yesterday was the first day,” she added quickly.

The moment the words left her mouth, her face burned hotter. Oh god–why had she said that out loud? It sounded like she was anticipating it herself.

Heaven knew she wasn’t…

Somehow, she had already grown used to Victor, forgetting that all of this had begun as a transaction.

Maybe because when it came to this, he was always so overbearing.

“I… can I call Marie?” she mumbled, desperate to change the subject.

brow. “And tell me–are you more worried about Marie’s anxiety, or your mother’s

faltered. The answer was

cared more about her

wrong, using her like

eyes softening with amusement. “Morality? That’s a word my

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lip. “But

Finished

enough: the more chaos in the Ashen Pact, the safer her mother might

organization down, giving

for

she asked quickly, before he could

Marie really was at risk, she would

her mother, she could go to the

“No one in the Ashen Pact dares touch her. She’s the Dawson family’s true–born princess.

all, wasn’t Madam Evelyn striking at them now precisely because Dan

Tessa’s

the Ashen Pact? You wouldn’t stall them. You’d hand them the

tearing the world apart searching

vanished, she’d taken something they had long sought above all

now, she’d be no more than bait,

all I can do

broke on

kin, yet because of them, she had no right to live

felt the sting

his kiss

slid from her eyes, unbidden. She had never imagined her life would end up