The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

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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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almost casual. But outside these

of this, over Tessa? Aren’t you afraid people

“When

Dale fell quiet.

Silence thickened again.

locked. Victor’s gaze was weightless, almost playful, yet full of

stared back into those eyes, something long–buried in his

before… so

and

you have anything else? If not,

a lazy arrogance, so at odds with the cold reputation that

standing nearby, couldn’t help the twitch of his

Seriously? Victor?

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

smirked. “Take a

Dale fell silent.

hardened. “The woman you cast aside only wanted to live her life. But you chose

Dale’s mind snapped to

never did,” he

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belonged to the Ashen Pact. That woman had played him

through him. “But your

Dale stiffened.

My people?

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

furrowed. “Are you saying Diana

name came out laced with

instant, it was clear–if Diana truly was the mastermind,

only gave