The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In novel Chapter 1017

1017 The Living Ancestor

After all, the Ashen Pact wasn’t back in his hands yet, and all the assets they had stripped from him hadn’t been returned.

Theo promptly shut his mouth.

Tessa sniffled and looked at Manny with tear–rimmed eyes.

The call connected.

Victor’s deep voice came through. “Who is this?”

Manny didn’t say a word; he simply handed the phone to Tessa.

Tessa took it and immediately started wailing into the receiver. “Victor, they’re all bullying me! Waaaah!”

The crowd: “…”

Where is her conscience? She only spent two hours in a cage, and ever since then, we’ve been waiting on her hand and foot with food and drinks. We haven’t hit her or even cursed at her. How exactly is this bullying?

“You have to avenge me, waaaah!”

Tessa cried piteously.

The atmosphere on the other end of the line instantly turned cold.

Hearing Tessa’s voice, Victor’s entire body tensed, and the murderous aura radiating from him became terrifying.

“Tessa, don’t be afraid.”

Even though his fury had reached its boiling point, he still did his best to coax Tessa over the phone.

He had originally thought about stepping back…

But now it seemed he couldn’t!

Why had Abraham kept everything under his control all these years? Because he was ruthless, a demon.

But often, that was the only way to truly protect Stella. Under Abraham’s iron–fisted methods,

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almost no one had dared to touch Stella for years.

It seemed he had been too merciful.

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“They won’t let me have a buffet, they won’t let me drink Coke, and they won’t even give me juice,” Tessa complained.

Victor: “…”

The chill emanating from him faltered for a moment.

“What did you say they were doing to bully you?”

“No buffet, no Coke, no iced juice–nothing at all! They’re so poor!”

Victor: “…”

“Hey! Why are you grabbing my phone? Manny, you bastard!”

Before Victor could respond, he heard Tessa shouting at Manny on the other end.

Lewis and Silas were currently by Victor’s side. The phone was on speaker!

Hearing Tessa’s spirited shouting and her insults directed at Manny, Silas and Lewis instinctively exchanged a glance.

This situation… something doesn’t feel right. It feels very, very wrong.

Manny’s voice came through. “Do you think I should be giving her the things she’s asking for?”

Victor; “No.”

A pregnant woman shouldn’t be eating those things, especially Coke and buffet food.

As soon as those words left his mouth, Tessa started howling at the top of her lungs on the other side…

“Shut up! Don’t you dare let out another sob!” Manny snapped.

Her crying is making my brain feel like it’s going to explode. Why didn’t I ever see her act like this when she was with Victor? She’s doing this on purpose just to get on my nerves, isn’t she?

Victor: “Don’t you dare raise your voice at her again.”

“Why can’t I yell at her? Look at the mess she’s made of me!”

Victor: “..”

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Lewis and Silas: “…”

“Because of her, I lost the entire Ashen Pact! Why do you think I kidnapped her? Isn’t it just to get you bastards to return everything that belongs to me?” Manny ranted.

“And what is she doing instead? She’s screaming for barbecue, buffets, Coke, juice, pineapples, melons, durian…”

Manny’s tone on the phone was becoming increasingly unhinged.

Meanwhile, on the other end, the men were stunned. Seeing that Tessa had been kidnapped and yet had the nerve to demand such a long list of items from Manny, they were momentarily speechless.

She’s been kidnapped, and she has a grocery list of demands? And they’re all food?

Lewis and Silas both thought the same thing: Is Tessa’s heart just naturally this big?

“Am I her nanny or something? Do I owe her? I have to serve her, and she’s so damn difficult to please!” Manny continued.

“If I don’t give her what she wants, she just cries and complains! I haven’t served a soul in my entire life! Does she have any idea that she’s actually a hostage?”

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