The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 783 Hailey Is Just A Pawn

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Bringing it up in this way, at this moment, Stella immediately sensed that this sister was anything but simple.

Rianne sniffed and said, “Hailey? She’s nothing. Compared to Ariana, her tricks are child’s play.”

Her words left Stella completely baffled.

“I don’t get it,” she said. “Why? Doesn’t Ariana want her own brother to be happy?”

If you truly loved your family, you’d want them to be happy.

Everyone in Rivermount knew how deeply Tempest cared for Rianne; why would it be like this?

Rianne’s smile twisted bitterly. “Why? I don’t know either.”

Ariana was Tempest’s own sister, after all.

As for why Ariana harbored such hostility toward her, Rianne had never figured it out in all these years.

“Hailey’s arrival was just the spark that set things off.”

The real fire had been smoldering long before.

It was Ariana–she had always been the flame that refused to go out.

For years, Rianne had tried to extinguish it; every time she thought she had, Ariana managed to ignite it all over again.

The cycle repeated endlessly, festering into something poisonous.

Stella’s heart ached. “Don’t worry. I’ll take care of things in Yalvoria.”

As for Tempest… there was no need to ask.

From the way Rianne was now, her relationship with him had clearly never been as harmonious as the outside world believed.

Beneath the glossy surface, cracks had long since split deep.

the heart, Stella

going–that only the

decide.

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783 Hailey Is

420

before leaving.

over years‘ worth

festering from the inside out for

time.

couldn’t help feeling

nothing she could

recounted how Tempest would take her side

later entered the Hale family, Tempest had even quarreled with her because of Ariana; in the end,

she heard, Stella could almost piece together Ariana and Hailey’s

suspected Hailey’s entry into the

know the situation now. Once I’m in

her heart out all

know. Don’t worry; I’ll

weren’t for you this time, I don’t think I could’ve taken this

knew exactly how deep

moment she left Tempest’s side, she would be exposed and unsafe for a

Stella, she could take that first step and

finds out, he’ll probably tear me

“And you-”

think I’d be

after hearing everything

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Hailey is

was not even

he’d “tear her apart… Stella wasn’t