The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 801 Nothing Like Yours

When he came back, she hurried to pour him a glass of juice. “Well? What did Tess say?”

The word “Tess” slipped from Artemis‘ lips, softer than she meant it to. It was her way of pretending, if only for a heartbeat, that she could live with the girl’s existence.

She spoke softly, trying to seem kind and understanding in front of Dale.

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After all, ever since the Ashen Pact had run into trouble, Dale’s patience with her had been wearing thin…

She was afraid that if things kept going this way, their relationship would start to fall apart.

Yet even when she called Tessa’s name so gently, Dale’s expression didn’t soften in the slightest.

Instead, his gaze on her grew deeper–and filled with scrutiny.

He had never looked at her that way before; it was as if she had done something unforgivable, and he was trying to see right through her.

Artemis felt a chill crawl up her spine under that stare. “Wh–why are you looking at me like that?”

“Nothing,” Dale said flatly.

His reply hit like a blade. People always find something to doubt–especially the ones they love.

No one had ever mentioned in front of him whether Lina and Lana looked like him or not.

Sure, the twins weren’t lookers–but every parent thinks their kids are perfect, no matter what anyone else says.

And since they were twins, he’d always assumed their features were just the result of sharing nutrients in the womb–one taking from the other, leaving both a little imperfect.

that they weren’t his… that had

Lewis and Silas had said it–that sentence like a dagger,

Dale’s chest like a

now, as he looked at Artemis–her face beginning to show the traces of age–he couldn’t find any

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staring at her, and though she didn’t know what was going on, anxiety began

beside him and took his

were full

stare–made Artemis‘ face

eyes locked on her; he didn’t miss

her face froze, a cold glint flashed through his

don’t they look

either?”

their children, the kids should at least share some resemblance with

it, Lina and Lana looked like

they didn’t resemble him. But why didn’t they look

after another–each like a thunderclap splitting her mind

are you

the children don’t look like us? Why would he

hard to accept her, and instead of

turned shallow. “Dale, what… what are

Not his children…

of wounded innocence,

years, she’d worried he might one day ask that very

She thought the danger had

had thrown the entire Ashen Pact into chaos–and