The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 798 The Weight of Ashen Pact

“Lina!”

Artemis’s voice snapped like a whip. She yanked her daughter’s hand hard.

“What nonsense are you spouting?”

“But Father-”

“I said Ashen Pact comes first!”

Lina’s words were cut off before she could finish.

Her eyes glistened with hurt as she stared back at her mother.

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Artemis’s tone was sharp and deliberate. “If your father wants to go, then remember—she is still his daughter.”

Lina froze.

At that sentence, the darkness in her gaze sharpened into defiance, her expression twisted with ruthless rebellion.

At last, Dale rose from his chair and strode out of the study.

On the road leaving Black Mountain, Trevor reported the address where Tessa and Victor were currently staying.

Back in Black Mountain, Lina turned furiously on her mother. “Why are you doing this? I’ll never accept that slut as my sister!”

Her father had no other children worth acknowledging. Not ones born outside Artemis. Anyone else was unworthy.

Artemis’s eyes flashed cold as steel. “Right now, Ashen Pact matters more than your pride.”

words were ground out with weight in every

“Mother, you-”

what difference does it make if there’s one more Tessa? We’ve already endured Dan for years, haven’t

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Dan darkened

more than enough,” Lina spat. “Now

All she wanted

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icy. “You’d better keep yourself in check. If anything

fury only deepened. “So what then? From the way you

ease Ashen Pact’s crisis, then yes–it’s

“Mother!”

stamped her foot

for years to push Dan out of

now, if

roared. “I

who was her father’s

bandaged wound across his face throbbed

That bastard Dan….

being brought back under their

made his

your agreement. If she

it would mean

and Lina exchanged a look. In their eyes, a shared

never accept

herself didn’t want it

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