The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 822 DNA Drama Incoming

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Artemis frowned when she caught him staring at her like that. “Why are you looking at me that way?”

“Where’s Tessa?” he asked coldly. Hadn’t we agreed he would bring Tessa back with him?

“She’s not coming back,” Dale said flatly.

“What?” Artemis‘ voice rose. “Not coming back? Why not?”

That little brat–Artemis had already given in, allowed her to return home; what more did she want? If she refused to come back, what was going to happen to the mess surrounding Ashen Pact? Artemis‘ face darkened.

She walked over and sat beside Dale. “You, as her father, went to get her yourself, and she still wouldn’t come back?”

Dale pressed his aching temples between his fingers.

All he could hear echoing in his head were Tessa’s words—accusing Artemis of cheating, claiming the twins weren’t his.

The pain in his head roared like thunder; he felt like he might explode.

“What does she want, then?” Artemis snapped, her tone sharp now.

Just ten minutes before Dale had returned, she’d gotten another call–one of her resource sites had been taken.

And the person behind it wasn’t Marie or Derrick… it was Victor, the man with Tessa.

She had originally planned to deal with that girl once Dale brought her home.

In other words…

to act as a bridge between them and Victor, then Artemis would lock her

for her, Artemis didn’t believe he would continue attacking Ashen

After all…

but the fiercest ones were Victor,

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force Victor to back off, Derrick and Marie would naturally follow; Victor himself would make sure of it, as long

Dale had

only kept

you staring at me like that? I asked you

after a long pause. “She just

to come back?” Artemis‘ voice grew shrill. “This is her home! She’d give up her

replaced by an icy glint in her eyes–one Dale had never seen

at her, his face hardening. “Home? Who besides you and your children even

bitter, he had fathered many children, but the only ones who still saw Black Mountain as home were Artemis‘–and even

in his mind like a curse, circling endlessly, impossible

colder by the

the edge of mockery in his tone, Artemis stiffened. “What do you mean by

back,” she said sharply. “Are you trying to

He

You’ve seen how I’ve treated Dan all these years! And Tessa–she’s not even in Redwood! You expect me to chase her down to Rivermount and treat her well

voice grew more

your children like my own, no matter who gave birth to them. But my sincerity has never been

nothing, but the look in his eyes was dark and

crumble–when their interests and power

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