The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In novel Chapter 618

Chapter 618 You Stole My Stuff!

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Victor said, “Right now, your father is trying to get that half of the map from your mother. And your mother…”

He paused mid–sentence.

Then, after a beat, he continued, “Your mother has gathered a few of the veteran elders who still follow her. She’s likely trying to establish her own faction. This is her most critical moment.”

Establish her own faction.

Clearly, the conflict had escalated beyond reconciliation. Tessa’s chest tightened painfully.

Victor glanced at her. “The web of relationships in this conflict is far too tangled. Your mother probably wants nothing more than to keep you out of it.”

“What’s that man’s stance right now?”

Victor replied, “He probably doesn’t know you exist. And he loves his current wife— very much.”

Tessa went quiet. Loves her, huh? Well, of course he does. If he didn’t, how would he have had three children with her?

She closed her eyes; a sharp, prickling pain bloomed in her chest.

“Can’t I see my mother, just once?”

The thought of her mom facing all of this alone was unbearable. The ache in her -heart was too much to stand.

And in that moment, her heart filled with a kind of courage she’d never felt before.

All her past fears, shattered by the fierce love she felt for her mother.

“She won’t see you,” Victor said.

After a moment, he added, “She probably doesn’t want your father to find out about you, either.”

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That was the most stubborn part of Diana’s pride. She didn’t want that man to ever know about Tessa.

Tessa lowered her eyes. And in them, a fire lit.

It was the instinctual fury of a child trying to protect her mother.

Meanwhile, Marie had found Evie.

But before she could get a single word out, Evie turned and bolted—infuriating Marie to no end.

“Evie, you liar! Are you even a woman?”

She sure could talk big when she was scheming. So why run now?

Marie took off after her like a madwoman, but today she wasn’t nearly as agile as usual.

The man from last night had been too ruthless; her legs still ached terribly.

Evie yelled back, ‘Stop chasing me! It’s all gone anyway!‘

“You damn woman!”

Hearing that everything was gone only made Marie more determined to catch her and give her a beating.

Heartless wench.

Evie darted out of the ballroom like a rabbit; Marie chased after her without missing a beat.

But just as she rushed out the door, she crashed straight into a man’s chest.

Her forehead smacked against him with a dull sound, and her brain buzzed from the impact.

Clutching her aching head, she groaned, “Ugh–got eyes or not?”

She looked up–only to see Derrick.

“You?”

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“I need to talk to you,” Derrick said.

But Marie wasn’t in the mood to talk about anything with him.

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Even if Derrick was only her husband in name, what happened last night still left her feeling… unsettled.

And now, on top of that, there was Evie…

She shoved him aside. “Ugh, whatever it is, it can wait!”

Before Derrick could say another word, Marie tore off in the direction Evie had

gone.

That damned woman. If she didn’t catch her today, she’d vanish off the grid again, probably into some godforsaken corner of nowhere where even the birds forgot to fly.

Derrick frowned as he watched Marie’s limping but determined figure dart off.

After a pause, he decided to follow.

Evie was quick.

But Marie wasn’t exactly slow, either.

Finally, in a dead–end alley, Marie cornered Evie–hands on her hips, panting furiously.

“Run! Go on, keep running! You coward. Back when Eddie worked for my brother, all you did was flap your gums. And now? You’re still just as shameless. Guess some things never change.”

Just thinking about the mess she’d gone through trying to find Stella–how Evie had played her, made Marie want to beat the woman.

Evie gave her a smirking glance. “And who’s the shameless one? I helped you the person, you want your payment back now? How does that make any sense?”

find

“What person did you find? It was my brother who found them! You just took a little tour around Rivermount and then bailed.”

That really set Marie off. Who gets paid a fortune for a stroll?

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Evie replied, “Your brother was already there. What was I supposed to do, stand around like an extra?”

“Cut the crap–give me my stuff back. We agreed you’d bring the person to me.”

It had been an astronomical finder’s fee.

They’d agreed she’d deliver the person–yet all she got was a sliver of info, and nothing more.

Marie snapped, “And you stole my stuff, too.”

She hadn’t even been this mad before–but now she was livid.

She’d already paid the woman in full, and Evie still had the nerve to steal from her on the way out?

Evie shrugged, “I didn’t steal it–I found it.”

“Found it? You found it in my room, didn’t you?”

“Well, I still found it.”

Marie was stunned. She actually had the gall to say that, stealing something from my room and calling it “found“?