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

going–that only the ones trapped in the storm of

decide.

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420

stayed for dinner at the Dawson estate before leaving. She and Stella had spent the entire

years‘ worth of moments

festering from the inside out

time.

couldn’t help feeling

nothing she

when Rianne recounted how Tempest would take her side in

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

Stella could almost piece together Ariana and Hailey’s

even suspected Hailey’s entry into the family had been Ariana’s doing all

know the situation now. Once I’m in Yalvoria,

pouring her heart out all

I’ll handle

you. If it weren’t for you this

how

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

she could take that first step

Tempest finds out, he’ll probably tear

“And you-”

think I’d be scared of

after hearing everything Rianne revealed today,

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Hailey is Just

was not even a

whether he’d “tear her apart… Stella