The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In novel Chapter 1020

Chapter 1020 Building a New Peak

Manny: “…”

Would it have exploded sooner or later anyway?

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In truth, Tessa was right. Over the years, because of his mother, the elders had increasingly dissatisfied. Openly and in the shadows, they had already begun establishing their own factions.

They had simply been subtle about it, but ever since Diana returned, those who were already restless had leaned toward her side. Before this, he truly hadn’t realized that Diana commanded such immense prestige within the Ashen Pact.

Actually…

What he wanted this time wasn’t the Ashen Pact itself! He wanted its resources.

“Heh,” Manny sneered, his tone turning dangerous. “You two did so much to the Ashen Pact- you’re going to pay a price for it. Everything that doesn’t belong to you, you’re giving it all back this time!”

Tessa: “…”

Talking about this makes my head ache! How could it possibly be that easy to return?

Right now, everything was fractured and scattered; it wasn’t as if they were the only ones holding the pieces. Most of it had been carved up by the Dawson family and Derrick.

“It was carved up directly,” Tessa muttered. “How is it supposed to be reunited so easily?”

“What did you say?” Manny’s voice turned even more menacing.

“Actually, if I were you, the most important thing right now would be to leave Noctarth and make a comeback. You don’t necessarily have to build your new peak on the ruins of the old one!”

Since the original mountain had collapsed, why bother with it? Naturally, one should build a new mountain rather than try to stack up the rubble of the old one.

Hearing this, Manny was livid. “What kind of mountain do you think a comeback is? You think it’s that easy to build?”

Does this woman even have a brain?

“But if you stay in Noctarth now, you’ll struggle just to stay alive,” Tessa countered.

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“I’m not trying to kick you while you’re down, but with your current capabilities, can you really handle a pincer attack from Victor, Derrick, and my mother all at once? And then there’s Dale. You’re not his child. You saw how ruthless he was to his own flesh and blood before–I shouldn’t need to remind you what he’d do to someone who isn’t even his, right?”

Case in point: Dan. How vicious had Dale been to him just because of Manny? That was his biological son, yet because of favoritism, he was capable of such things.

And now Manny wasn’t even his son…

“What do you want all those things for? It’s not like grabbing them back makes them yours. You won’t be able to hold onto them anyway, will you?”

Manny: “…”

As he listened to Tessa’s blunt analysis, his chest began to heave with rising emotion.

“It’s all because of you–because of you and your mother–that the Morris family ended up like this. That’s why everything is falling apart.”

“You’re overthinking it,” Tessa replied. “Things turning out this way… it wasn’t because of me and my mom.”

“Heh, don’t you dare dodge the blame. If it wasn’t because of you two, then who else? What else could it have been?” Manny became agitated again.

In his view, even Dan hadn’t been able to directly subvert the Ashen Pact. But as soon as Tessa and her mother returned, everything changed. He had thought they were just two insignificant

women.

In the end, the entire Ashen Pact and the Morris family had spiraled out of control and disintegrated, bit by bit, because of them.

“It was obviously because of your mother,” Tessa whispered.

Small as her voice was, Manny’s already heightened emotions flared into a loss of control.

“What did you say? Tessa, I’m going to kill you!”

“I’m just telling the truth! It really was because of your mother. Seriously, your mom is something else–Dale loved her so much, why couldn’t she just have his children?”

“You-

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