The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 799 A Father at the Door

Dale finally tracked down where Victor and Tessa were staying.

Finished

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.

but Silas stepped forward. “Meeting our master at this

a

only want to see my

Lewis

daughter

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

up now, clinging to the word, was nothing but

held no

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

Lewis’s jab carried

had an edge Dale failed to catch–or perhaps had

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

had never questioned it.

the hint

twitched as he

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

Silas and Lewis remained.

of yours,”

he wanted nothing more than to stitch it

he admitted–it

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

then muttered something uncharacteristic for him. “So… Lina and Lana really aren’t

gossip, but Lewis had pulled him right into

not,” Lewis

gone, suddenly turned back–and caught