The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In novel Chapter 881

r 881 Derrick Got Off Too Easy

“Yeah, I ran back,” Stella said.

Marie fell silent. Ran back… Well, that did sound like something Eddie would do.

He might seem loud and harmless most of the time, but if he was pushed too far, he’d do just about anything.

When Derrick heard Abraham upstairs, he glanced at Marie. “I’m going up.”

Men always had endless things to talk about.

Stella watched Derrick’s back as he went up the stairs, then turned to Marie. “He seems a lot calmer now, doesn’t he?”

Honestly, in Stella’s mind, Derrick and Eddie were practically cut from the same cloth.

Sometimes the things that came out of their mouths were just… well, enough to make anyone’s head spin.

“Calmer?” Marie snorted. “You didn’t see how smug he looked in the car earlier.”

Stella blinked in surprise.

“Dan was about to lose his mind because of him,” Marie added.

Stella couldn’t help but laugh.

“Okay, fine,” she said between chuckles. “I take back what I said about him being calm.”

Calm? That word didn’t belong anywhere near Derrick. The man was as unreliable as they came; back when her brother was trying to hunt him down, even then, Derrick couldn’t explain himself clearly.

And now, with this whole situation involving Dan…

Marie looked at her, grabbing Stella’s soft hand. “Reese hasn’t tried anything with you yet, right?”

“Not yet. My people checked–Reese really is in Hamlin. And Mona’s been going there a lot

too.”

Marie frowned. “Wait–you’re telling me she literally turned herself into your look–alike?”

Stella nodded. “When I first saw the photo, I thought it was me.”

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Especially the figure–the body shape was almost identical.

“That doesn’t make sense,” Marie muttered.

“What do

you

mean?”

“But she’s so much shorter than you!”

Right, height! You could fix a face with surgery, but how were you supposed to fix that?

“Maybe she wants me dead,” Stella said quietly, “so she can show up afterward as my replacement.”

Not to switch places directly, but to step into her life as a stand–in.

Marie fell silent.

Damn… that actually made sense.

If something really happened to Stella during childbirth, Abraham would be devastated— probably lose his mind.

And if, right at that time, someone appeared with Stella’s exact face…

It wasn’t impossible that he’d let her stay in his life as a substitute.

Marie’s eyes narrowed dangerously. “Reese–I’m not letting her get away with this!”

“And Mona, too! No wonder Kelly turned out so vicious, growing up under her care. Like mother, like daughter.”

“Reese definitely isn’t Mr. Derrick’s biological child,” Stella said.

“Of course not!” Marie snapped. If she were, would she have been kept away from the Tom family all these years? Reese was Mona’s illegitimate daughter, plain and simple.

Marie looked at Stella. “I’ll help you deal with them.”

“Expose them directly?”

“What, you think I’m going to play games with them?”

Marie was furious.

She’d been itching to destroy them for years–tonight, she finally stopped pretending to play

nice.

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Reese and Mona–clearly she’d acted too well–behaved in front of the Tom family before, because they’d clearly forgotten who they were dealing with.

She stood abruptly, ready to go upstairs and get Derrick.

Stella grabbed her wrist. “What are you doing?”

“Getting Derrick. We’re going back to finish them off!”

Stella fell silent.

Marie always had a short fuse.

Just thinking about the way Mona and Reese had plotted behind Stella’s back made her blood boil–she wanted nothing more than to crush them right now.

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