The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

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.

himself is checking into Dan,”

both sons were clawing at each other,

Which left only… Artemis.

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

lodged like

who?” His roar snapped through the quiet. “Who dared

only shake his

his cigarette.

“Yes, sir.”

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struck another

bastard–haven’t you

lazy laugh. “Not my fault. Orders from

day Derrick Morris

alone with no wife, no

think I can’t find another? Women would line

for him, Derrick had put the phone on speaker. Across the table, Marie sipped her