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.”

ground out with weight

“Mother, you-”

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

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darkened both

already more than enough,” Lina spat. “Now another


it. All she wanted

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knew her daughter’s temper all too well. Her voice turned icy. “You’d better keep yourself in check. If anything happens to her here in Noctarth, Ashen Pact won’t

the way you sounded,

ease

“Mother!”

her

to push Dan out

now, if Tessa

roared. “I

outsider who was her father’s

jaw clenched in pain. The bandaged wound across his face


That bastard Dan….

their roof made his chest burn. “I don’t agree

his

agreement.

agreed to return, it would

and Lina exchanged a look. In

would never accept it. No

didn’t want

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