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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off light, almost casual. But outside these walls, those same words weighed down like

all of this, over Tessa? Aren’t you afraid people will see through it for what

merciless. “When

Dale fell quiet.

Silence thickened again.

almost playful,

those eyes, something

before… so familiar.

deeper and

drag of his cigarette. “Mr. Morris, do you have anything else?

slipped from Victor’s lips with a lazy arrogance, so at odds with the cold reputation that usually surrounded

nearby, couldn’t help

Seriously? Victor?

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

smirked. “Take

Dale fell silent.

only wanted to live her life. But you

Dale’s mind snapped to

never did,”

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the years–but only to reclaim what belonged to the Ashen Pact.

voice cut through him. “But

Dale stiffened.

My people?

just brought back by Dan… She herself had been pushed to return, forced by the threat around

“Are you

name came out laced

clear–if Diana truly was the mastermind, Dale wanted

answer. He only gave