The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 795 The Price of Betrayal

The Morris family was steeped in darkness.

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The moment Dan’s words landed, Dale’s fury snapped like a whip. “Well? Did you find Tessa or not?”

Manny turned his gaze on Dan as well.

He had made no progress.

Once, he had dismissed Tessa as nothing but the bastard child of that whore Diana. He never dreamed she would cause such upheaval.

Now Manny, like Lana in her hospital bed, wanted Tessa dead more than anything.

Dan sank into the single sofa, lit a cigarette, and took a drag.

His calmness only stoked their anger.

Dale’s voice rose sharper. “I asked you–did you find her?”

As if searching for Tessa were Dan’s duty alone. At the beginning, Manny had searched with him. Now the burden was being dumped squarely on him.

Dan turned his head toward Manny. “And you? Did you find her?”

“You-”

Manny’s face blackened. Dan was shoving the fire back at him, and he couldn’t stomach it.

Seeing the tension spike again, Dale’s temper boiled over. “This isn’t the time for petty fights! What matters now is finding her and handing her over!”

That word–handing–spat through his clenched teeth.

Dan let out a bitter laugh. “Need I remind you? The one you’re so eager to hand over is your daughter.”

Artemis’s face darkened, and she shot him a furious glare.

Dale’s eyes sharpened into blades. “I don’t need you reminding me of that.”

“With how ruthless you sounded just now, I thought I should remind you anyway.”

Dale’s expression only sank further.

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“We’re all stuck in this together. Do you really want to talk like this right now?”

But he had no patience left. What mattered most was finding Tessa.

Even if they once thought she was nothing but a pretext-

The pressure closing in proved otherwise. If they didn’t produce her soon, the excuse would bury them alive.

So, real or not, they had to find her.

Dan took another slow drag. “Stop looking.”

The room froze.

Dale’s breathing quickened. “What did you just say?”

Stop looking?

Manny’s fury exploded. “Are you insane? You want us all dead faster?”

admitting he hadn’t searched for her

filled Manny’s

you hold,

Pact falls, then none of us have anything

taken the worst losses. Fear had already stripped away their resentment toward Dan.

Inside could wait.

someone teach you to sweet–talk women and now you’re actually doing it? That

spilled over. Every word

eyes narrowed, cold

have some

whistled across the room and struck his face. Pain exploded as blood poured

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clang, the military blade clattered at

study turned

rushed to him in a panic. Manny, groaning, pulled

was

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wound–an ugly slash from the corner of his

“Dan! What are you doing? He’s

narrowed

glare. “Insult her

Her?

had spent these days robbing Ashen Pact

tried to retort, but pain ripped

wound split wider, and his words died

“Her? You mean Marie? Dan, don’t forget–she’s the one who’s stolen the most from Ashen

turned back to Manny. “How bad

vicious and raw. He would

“I’ll take

the cigarette butt into the

with Victor

words hit

after he left, the others sat frozen, unable to

the pain did their

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and Artemis locked

Tessa’s been with

Artemis nodded grimly.

“Then what the hell have they been doing

was just a pretext,” Artemis replied, her voice

was what made it terrifying–Tessa had been a pretext

she trying to do? Has she let herself be blinded by some man? This family is

didn’t like the way it sounded, but she couldn’t deny Lina was

her to

against us and help outsiders like this… why didn’t Lana

knew the truth: Tessa had been with Victor all

a

not even bothering to hide, they had driven knives straight into the Morris family’s

lay curled in bed, clutching the phone nervously as she

thought you knew,” Tessa said pitifully. “Victor

she realized

through Ashen Pact, pushing

come forward then, admitted she was

have torn her to

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