The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In novel Chapter 791

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Over the years, Victor had followed Abraham and done plenty of things for the Dawson family.

The reason Ashen Pact was so hard to handle now was because she and Derrick worked together without a single flaw!

Thinking back on it…

Oh, damn!

At first they had always believed Victor was the one cooperating with them.

But in reality—

They had been the ones cooperating with Victor all along.

From the very start, they had mistaken who was leading and who was following.

No wonder Abraham called them stupid. They really were stupid, blindly clawing at Ashen Pact without realizing it.

And the result…

After dinner, Marie and Derrick walked out of the restaurant together, only to run into Dan, who had come looking for her.

The man glared at her with fury.

Truthfully, seeing Dan still made Marie feel guilty inside.

Dan said, “Didn’t you say it had nothing to do with you? Then what the hell are you fighting for? You’d better explain this to me!”

In that moment, Dan was about to explode. He had seen shameless people before, but never anyone this shameless.

His eyes burned with menace as he stared at Marie.

For a moment, that look actually made her feel rattled…

Maybe this was the difference between having reason on your side and not. Before, she had the upper hand, so her attitude had been stronger.

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Now it was different.

She’d lost the justification, and that meant her momentum slipped as well.

Marie instinctively hid behind Derrick, which only infuriated Dan more.

“What are you hiding for? What the hell do you mean by that?”

The fact that she backed off the moment he confronted her-

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That was as good as an admission. Dan, seething, reached out to grab Marie, but Derrick slammed a fist across his face.

With a heavy thud, the air fell silent.

Blood trickled from the corner of Dan’s mouth.

Marie felt her chest tighten when she saw it.

Not because she pitied him, of course. She just knew what they’d done this time was pretty

rotten.

But even if she had lost the justification-

Marie still forced herself to swallow and raise her chin. “Don’t think you’re innocent here. If I came after you, you had it coming.”

Her words carried a hint of guilt, and it showed.

Dan narrowed his eyes. “I had it coming?”

“Yeah. You faked your death back then. I haven’t even properly settled that score with you yet.”

“You beat me half to death not long ago. Did I ever once hit you back? And now you’re saying the account isn’t settled?”

Letting her beat on him before–wasn’t that already part of settling the debt?

She remembered chasing Dan all the way to Sand City and beating him down there too.

If you added it all up…

That should have been enough to settle it.

Dan said, “You came after me for Tessa–that’s between you and Tessa. Why are you dragging up the past? How’s that the same thing?”

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Marie went silent.

It wasn’t the same.

But… she couldn’t afford to lose her stance.

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“Then what about the debt for sleeping with me? Don’t tell me I can’t settle that too. You think this all gets wiped away just because you took a few beatings?”

Dan froze.

Marie froze too.

The moment the word “sleep” came out of her mouth, both men’s expressions changed.

Derrick’s turned strange.

Dan’s face darkened like a storm rolling in.

His temples throbbed with rage. “I told you I didn’t sleep with you-”

“Who else could it have been, if not you?”

Marie cut him off before he could finish.

Her glare was sharp. “After everything you’ve done to me, all I did was snatch a little something from Ashen Pact. I didn’t even take your life. Consider yourself lucky.”

“So I’m supposed to thank you for sparing me?”

“No need to thank me.”

That curt reply made Dan laugh bitterly. She might say there was no need, but her words burned like mockery.

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