Chapter 746 Ashen Pact in Flames.

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Dale’s patience was gone. Trevor’s report had made the truth clearer and murkier all at once.

“None of them?” His voice rasped through clenched teeth.

Trevor nodded. “Yes, sir. We searched thoroughly. Neither Madam nor your two sons have any trace of her.”

“Then maybe she was never in their hands at all,” Trevor ventured.

Dale’s fist tightened around his cigarette. “Then where the hell is she?”

Trevor had no answer.

The study fell into silence, heavy enough to choke. Smoke curled from Dale’s lips, the bitterness staining the air.

“They all clamor for me to hand her over, yet none of them have her? What kind of twisted game is this?”

“Sir,” Trevor added quietly, “Dan’s men are investigating you, Madam, and Manny. If he’s searching so desperately, then the girl isn’t with him.”

Dale’s brows drew taut. Dan was out.

Manny himself is checking into Dan,”

If both sons were clawing at each other, neither could

Which left only… Artemis.

She was the woman he’d cherished for years, the gentlest presence in his life. To suspect her now–it felt

like a

roar snapped through the quiet. “Who dared take them, and

could only

cigarette. “Bring Dan

“Yes, sir.”

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had just struck another

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the other end came Derrick’s lazy laugh. “Not my fault. Orders from the

see the day Derrick Morris

no wife, no heir, no legacy. That’s

I can’t find another? Women would line up to marry

had put the phone on speaker. Across the table,

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