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“What do you mean? Tessa is nothing but your excuse to move against the Ashen Pact! I knew it -someone like Mr. Victor would never go to war over a woman. So tell me, Mr. Victor, are you really going to deny that you’ve set your sights on something inside the Ashen Pact?”

Dale’s words came sharp and precise, every point hitting like a blade. For a moment, it almost sounded convincing.

Victor glanced at the photo in his hand, then back at Dale. His smile carried an edge of ice. “If Mr. Morris says so, then it must be true.”

Dale had laid it all out, but Victor brushed it aside with a single mocking line.

The words had barely left his mouth when Dale’s face sank.

His breathing turned harsh. “Then what is it you’re after in the Ashen Pact? What exactly do you want?”

The more he spoke, the harder his teeth ground together.

Victor released a slow breath of smoke, calm and deliberate. “What if I said… we want the entire Ashen Pact?”

Dale froze.

The room fell silent.

Darkness radiated from him, while Victor’s eyes gleamed with danger.

“So, Mr. Morris,” Victor said softly, “will you give it to us?”

The blunt demand cut through the air.

All they were after was what they wanted–then they’d be

gone.

The Ashen Pact was already in turmoil because of them. If they didn’t pull back soon, the Pact would be torn apart.

Dale knew he was at his breaking point.

Yet when Victor said he wanted the entire Ashen Pact, the thought sent a chill through his

bones.

“The entire Ashen Pact?” he growled.

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outside these walls, those same words weighed down like

bounds. And all of this, over Tessa? Aren’t you afraid people will see through it for what it is—just an

low and merciless. “When have we ever cared

Dale fell quiet.

Silence thickened again.

gaze was weightless, almost playful, yet full of mockery–mockery of Dale’s

those eyes, something long–buried in his memory

before… so familiar.

deeper and deeper, but

“Mr. Morris, do you have

with a lazy arrogance, so at odds with the cold

Lewis, standing nearby, couldn’t help the

Seriously? Victor?

in Dale’s veins, reversing its course with rage. “Who’s

“Take

Dale fell silent.

aside only wanted to live

woman. Dale’s mind

never did,” he

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her over the years–but only to reclaim what belonged to the Ashen Pact. That woman had played him once, and she had

through him.

Dale stiffened.

My people?

Diana wasn’t just brought back by Dan… She herself had been pushed to return, forced by the

furrowed. “Are you saying Diana is

came out laced with

in that instant, it was clear–if Diana truly was the

He only gave him a cold, contemptuous