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…

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

for her, Artemis didn’t believe

After all…

growing in number, but the fiercest ones were Victor, Derrick, and

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she could force Victor to back off, Derrick and Marie would naturally follow; Victor himself would make sure of it, as long as he didn’t want

Dale

only kept looking at her,

at me like that?

Dale said after a long pause. “She just doesn’t want to come

Artemis‘ voice grew shrill. “This is

face drained away, replaced by an icy glint

“Home? Who besides you and your children

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

played in his mind like a curse, circling endlessly, impossible to silence or

grew colder by

in his tone,

said sharply. “Are you trying to

tone–it was. He was

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

voice grew more agitated with

matter who gave birth to them. But my sincerity has never been returned; and now you’re saying it’s my fault

but the look in his eyes

to crumble–when

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