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.

toward Lewis, but Silas stepped forward. “Meeting our

from sleep at such a time would

only want to see my daughter,”

our master now,” Lewis shot back,

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

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life without the slightest intersection with him could hardly be claimed so suddenly as

Dale to show up now, clinging to the word, was

submission held no

Mr. Morris, with so many children, you can’t even tell which one’s yours. What’s the point of seeing any

sharp–tongued, Lewis’s jab carried an

one’s yours had an edge Dale failed to catch–or

so conspicuously plain, most who saw them doubted they were truly

had never

now, as Lewis needled, the hint flew straight past

as he cast

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

Silas and Lewis remained.

of

wanted nothing more than to

tonight, he admitted–it had felt

“He can’t even recognize his own children. Blind as

him. “So… Lina and Lana

but Lewis had pulled him right

course not,” Lewis

halfway gone, suddenly turned back–and caught the