The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In novel Chapter 928

Chapter 928 No Ambition

Diana nodded thoughtfully. “Are you with Victor… voluntarily?”

“Huh?”

What did she meant

Firushed

After just one glance, Diana looked away from Victor, her gaze that of a typical parent sizing someone up: No matter how outstanding, they’re never good enough for your own.

Diana turned to Tessa, her expression suddenly serious.

Tessa quickly swallowed the meat in her mouth. “I… I am. It’s voluntary.

Diana raised an eyebrow. “Didn’t you used to like the refined, gentle types? He looks dangerous”

Tessa: “…”

Uh, gentle types?

“That was before. Before I’d ever met…”

Back in Rivermount, most of the boys Tessa knew were scholarly and polite. She had never encountered anyone like Victor.

Just as Diana was about to say more, the phone beside her vibrated.

Diana put down her fork, glanced at the number, and answered. “Hello.”

“Did we really never… do that?”

Dale’s voice, seething with rage, came through the line.

Diana: “Are you unwilling to believe the truth, or just too scared to?”

Dale: “…”

The line went silent.

He was both unwilling and scared to believe.

Dale knew better than anyone that if he and Diana had never been intimate… then Tessa was not his child.

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“Do you remember how loyal you were to Artemis back then? Tsk, tsk. You acted so chaste you nearly drove Madam Morris crazy. You tell me, did we or didn’t we?”

Dale: “…”

“No, wait, you were active. You were out carousing, just to fool the old Madam.”

“Dale, you don’t need to be so bitter. Everything that’s happened today is just your payback.”

“You tricked someone into marriage. You deserve this!”

That was right. He had tricked her.

Dale hadn’t just been carousing to fool Madam Morris. He had married her, Dan’s mother.

Given Artemis’s background, if Dale hadn’t done that, Madam Morris really would have had her killed. He protected Artemis that way, and Artemis repaid him so well.

She bore three children, and not a single one was his…

What was that, if not payback?

Dale’s breathing grew ragged. “You…”

Diana: “You and Artemis both deserved it!”

It wasn’t just Dale. Artemis was also getting her karmic retribution.

Dale tricked her into marriage. And Artemis, who acted so pure and innocent, had secretly tried to hunt down and kill every woman Dale had ever been with.

“You and I never did. But what about Gu Yu… did you?”

Gu Yu.

Dan’s mother…

At this, the tension on the line thickened.

Dale: “I remember… We did…!”

He choked out the words.

Diana: “You remember wrong.”

Dale: “You’re just getting revenge on me, aren’t you? You’re saying this on purpose to hurt me!”

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Believing Diana was simply too cruel for him. He couldn’t accept that his years of success and his “perfect, harmonious” family were all a complete and utter joke.

Dale: “You’re trying to take the whole Ashen Pact. Isn’t that just revenge?”

Did she look like she had that much free time?

Dale: “Be the permanent mistress of Black Mountain. You’ll have half of the Ashen Pact. Just stop what you’re doing, okay?”

Dale had truly been driven mad.

His tone on the phone flipped wildly–one moment hysterical, the next, begging.

Diana sneered. “The mistress of Black Mountain? You really think I give a damn about that?”

“I am going to be the one in charge of the Ashen Pact! What good is ‘mistress‘? Artemis sat in that position for years, and didn’t she fall just the same?”

And she was supposedly the “true love.”

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This is why women should never be ruled by their hearts. Aim bigger. Open up your worldview.

Before Dale could say more, Diana hung up.

She saw Tessa was still eating.

Diana: “Aren’t you stuffed?”

Tessa had been eating nonstop while she was on the phone. How much meat had she eaten?

Tessa: “Nope! What did he say, Mom? Did he ask you to go back and be the mistress of Black Mountain?”

Diana: “Tsk! No ambition.”

What was that?

As she said “no ambition,” Diana subconsciously glanced at Tessa.

Tessa: “Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Looking at how much you’re eating!”

Tessa: “…”

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As she spoke, Diana’s gaze drifted down… to Tessa’s stomach.

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