The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 744 Tangled Worries

“Then should we be harsher?” Marie asked through clenched teeth.

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Derrick’s lashes lowered, the sharp glint in his eyes hidden in shadow. Harsh? They had already bled the Ashen Pact half to death.

But after a moment, his lips curved faintly. “Harsher, then.”

And so, the two reached an unspoken accord.

Their strikes fell without pause, ruthless and unrelenting, hammering the Ashen Pact with no room to breathe. The message was simple: hand Tessa over, or choke on the pressure.

Meanwhile in Falvaria, Stella couldn’t shake her unease.

“Abraham!” she called.

“Hm?” He lifted his eyes from the papers in his hand, a faint smirk tugging when she flinched and corrected herself.

“…Husband.”

She still slipped sometimes. After all, she had called him by name her whole life.

Now she lay propped against pillows, too heavy with the weight of triplets to do much more than rest.

Abraham sat nearby, documents balanced in one hand, the other reaching over to smooth her hair when she spoke. He rarely left her side now–especially after the business with the pregnancy test.

Her voice was small. “It doesn’t feel right. About Melissa.”

He raised a brow. “What about her?”

it was her. She even told me to handle it. But…” Stella shook her head. “It doesn’t seem that way.”

eyes softened, his voice dropping into something deeper, steadier. “What people show you is never all there

Melissa’s performance might have been a mask? That the innocent confusion she’d shown was nothing but

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Melissa did fit better into the role of someone capable of

Stella’s chest tightened. Something still

“Sleep,” Abraham murmured.

Her mind was

sighed, catching her cheek gently between his fingers. “Then let Abel dig. When the truth

If Abel was watching, then she could

“Sleep now,” he coaxed.

if you hold

She curled in like a child, not wanting to think,

gaze darkened. He hung up immediately, easing her against the pillow before stepping into the hall to take

the door even closed, her own phone vibrated.

mumbled, rubbing

came Tessa’s voice, tight

“Uneasy? Why?”

Victor this whole

hesitated. “… Most likely,

teeth. “This whole

said quietly, “the board’s been set. None of us can stop the pieces from playing

“Then Marie…”