The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 799 A Father at the Door

Dale finally tracked down where Victor and Tessa were staying.

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It was already past one in the morning when Silas and Lewis stopped him at the entrance.

Silas frowned. “Mr. Morris, please go back. Everyone is resting now.”

“I have urgent business. I need to see my daughter!”

The words my daughter were bitten out hard.

For a father to demand to see his own child should have been reason enough–but not for Silas and Lewis.

“Mr. Morris,” Silas replied coolly, “even if it were your mother you wanted to see, we couldn’t let you in at this hour.”

Let alone a daughter.

And truthfully–after the way Dale had treated Tessa, they weren’t fools.

He hadn’t even known what she looked like. And now he called her his daughter?

Dale’s face darkened at once.

Lewis smirked lazily. “Mr. Morris, maybe head home and figure out what your daughter looks like first. Then come back.”

The words dripped with mockery.

A father who didn’t even recognize his own child–was there anything more laughable?

Dale’s face shifted from pale to ashen with rage.

cut venomously toward Lewis, but Silas stepped forward. “Meeting our master at

from sleep at such a

to see my

master now,” Lewis shot back, his voice

meaning was clear. Tessa wasn’t only Dale’s daughter anymore–if she had ever

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intersection with him could hardly be claimed so suddenly

clinging to the word, was nothing

no

didn’t stop there. “Besides, Mr. Morris, with so many children, you can’t even tell which

jab

yours had an

and Lana were so conspicuously plain, most who saw them doubted they were

Dale had never questioned it.

Lewis needled, the

as he

of blue. Fury choked him until he finally turned on his heel and

Silas and Lewis remained.

mouth of

wanted nothing more than

admitted–it

I’m wrong,” Lewis shot back. “He can’t even recognize his own children.

muttered something uncharacteristic for him. “So… Lina

indulged in gossip, but Lewis had

course not,”

gone, suddenly turned back–and