The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

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    b“/bWhat happened?”

    “The twin sisters of Ashen Pact’s current leader–Lana and Lina–snuck into Mr. Victor’s vist bnight/b. They tried to take Ms. Tessa.”

    Ste froze; her brain felt like it short–circuited.

    “What?”

    Abraham nced over at her. Ste’s chest tightened. “Is Tessa okay?”

    “Ms. Tessa is fine; Mr. Victor’s fine too.”

    Ste exhaled in relief. “Good. That’s good, as long as they’re both okay.”

    “But seriously, what were Lina and Lana trying to pull?”

    Ste had heard of those two before.

    Hideously ugly and vicious to the core; the kind of people who proved the old saying true–iugly /iion /iithe /iioutside/ii, /iiuglier /iion /iithe /iiinside/ii. /i

    “They’re… Ms. Tessa’s younger sisters,” Abel said.

    “What?” Ste blinked. “Sisters?b” /b

    iWait/i–whati? /i

    Abel continued, “The current leader of Ashen Pact is also Ms. Tessa’s… younger brother.”

    Ste was stunned. iWhat /iithe /iiheck/ii? /i

    “Biological? Her actual siblings?”

    “They are,” Abel confirmed.

    Ste sat there,pletely dumbfounded. iWell/ii, /iiyeah/ii… /iiif /iithey /iiweren’t /iiblood/ii–/iirted/ii, /iiwhy /iiwould /iithey /iibe /iicalled /iiher /isiblings?

    “But Tessa isn’t even that old,” Ste said. “How is her brother already the leader of Ashen Pact?”

    Abel looked just as puzzled for a moment.

    “All the official records refer to him as her younger brother.”

    Whether he was technically older of younger–that remained unclear.

    Ste was speechless. iWhat /iia /imessb.. /b

    The Ashen Pact really was a disaster on the inside.

    And Tessa’s background–Ste truly hadn’t expected this.

    “Who was the previous leader of Ashen Pact?” she asked.

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    “Ms. Miller’s mother. After she left, her father took over for a while before passing it down bto /bthe bcurrent /bleader,”

    Ste nodded, finally putting the pieces together.

    Tessa’s background was way moreplicated than she’d thought. Ste had assumed she bcame /bbfrom /bba /bsingle–parent family simple, straightforward.

    And that idiot, after everything that went downst night–hadn’t even called her.

    It seemed like Tessa had already begun adapting to the chaos in her world; she was doing her best to btake /bbit /ball in stride. That’s iright/i.

    She was learning to stand on her own.

    From the looks of it, she was gearing up for a serious showdown with her own mother.

    “This could get tricky,” Abel added after a moment’s thought.

    Abraham raised a brow and gave him a sidelong nce.

    “Since the identity of the intruders wasn’t known at the time,” Abel said, “all of the vi’s defense systems activated. Lana was seriously injured.”

    “Seriously?” Abraham asked.

    “Yeah. Which means Ashen Pact has now made a major enemy of Mr. Victor.”

    Ste went silent.

    This was big trouble.

    Rumor had it, the current leader of Ashen Pact adored his twin sisters more than anything.

    After Abel finished his report, he took his leave.,

    He’d barely stepped out when Derrick walked in. As soon as he saw Derrick, Ste quietly headed upstairs.

    Derrick took the seat across from Abraham, lit a cigar, and took a slow drag. Abraham frowned. “Don’t smoke in here.”

    “What, she’s that precious to you now?” Derrick asked.

    Then again, Abraham’s devotion to Ste wasn’t exactly breaking news–they’d all known for a while now.

    Abraham didn’t answer. He just gave Derrick a cool, prating look.

    “Alright, alright–no smoking,” Derrick grumbled, stubbing out the cigar.

    Then heced his fingers together and looked straight at Abraham. “The guy from the night before, was me.”

    Abraham’s eyes glinted with a hard–to–read smile. He adjusted the gold rims of his sses.

    “You should be saying that to Marie,” he said calmly.

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    Marie? The image of Marie’s fiery figure shed through Derrick’s mind–she’d already taken off chasing after Evic.

    And then she’d gonepletely off–grid; her phone had probably died.

    Abraham took a sip of his coffee. “Why’d you run?”

    Even for someone like Abraham, usually calm andposed, the word “run” slipped out with a hint of

    amusement.

    Derrick’s face darkened immediately.

    “I didn’t run.”

    That damn word again.

    He honestly wanted to go back and slice Sebastian into pieces. iDid /iiI /iilook /ilike isomeone /iiscared /iiof /idyingi? /iYet that moron had dragged him away…

    Although, to be fair, Sebastian did know Marie pretty well.

    Sure enough, the moment she woke up, it was like a bomb went off in Falvaria. Dan kept passing out in the hospital; E ended up catching a bullet….

    Abraham raised a brow. “Didn’t run? Then how’d things get to this point?”

    Derrick frozei. /iiYeah/i, ithings /iihad /iigotten /iia /iilittle /iiout /iiof /iihand/ii. /i

    Yesterday alone, Marie had put Dan in the hospital and shot E.

    It had been absolute chaos.

    Derrick shot Abraham a grim look. “You figured it out yesterday, didn’t you?”

    That exined why Abraham had said what he did at the gate.