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.

Lewis, but Silas stepped forward. “Meeting our master at this hour will do you

sleep at such a time would not be inclined

see

master now,” Lewis shot back, his

daughter anymore–if she had

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intersection with him could hardly be

to

submission held no value–certainly not to

so many children, you can’t even tell which one’s yours. What’s the point

Lewis’s jab

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

most who saw

never questioned it. Not

needled, the hint flew straight past

he cast Lewis a warning

face had gone an ugly shade of blue. Fury choked him until he

Silas and Lewis remained.

of

nothing more than

tonight, he admitted–it had felt

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

hesitated, then muttered something uncharacteristic for him. “So…

Lewis had pulled

not,” Lewis

suddenly turned back–and caught