The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In novel Chapter 961

Chapter 961 A Buffet at Home

Her methods seemed chaotic, but she was actually laying a trap for them.

Back then, Mona thought Marie knew something and was about to expose her.

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But as it turned out, Marie just wanted to use the old coot’s suspicion to drive Mona into desperate straits.

This was far more agonizing than a direct confrontation

Marie: “I’ve looked into it. Reese urgently needs surgery. She already paid a deposit, and if she doesn’t go through with it now, she can’t get it back.”

In short, the deposit was just to book the procedure; getting a refund is impossible.

But the most serious problem right now is where she’s going to get the money for it.

Stella: “Then she must be frantically scrambling around in Hamlin, right?”

“It’s worse than that.”

“…”

“When I was heading out this morning, I overheard Mona on the phone in the backyard. Reese, on the other end, was completely losing it.”

Stella understood. For people that greedy, whoever held the purse strings was their master.

If you can’t provide the money, they won’t even give you the time of day, let alone speak politely.

So now Mona was completely being roasted over an open fire.

Derrick came downstairs and saw Marie and Stella whispering about the Tom family’s affairs again.

He was jealous!

He didn’t even know when it started, but whenever he saw Stella and Marie being thick as thieves, he felt annoyed.

Abraham, walking beside him, shot him a look. “What’s with that expression?”

“Can’t I be annoyed? How can any ‘sisterly bond‘ be this close?”

Derrick huffed, went straight downstairs, and said to Marie, “We’re leaving.”

Marie looked at his attitude. “Leave for what? We haven’t even had dinner yet.”

Marie had been planning to go back after dinner.

Ever since taking over the management of the Tom family household, she hadn’t actually managed anything at all.

She still returned to the Dawson family for meals every day, not even leaving the Tom family any grocery

money.

Derrick: “I’m taking you out to eat tonight.”

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“Where are we going?”

Derrick: “Lancelot and Ashley said they don’t want to hide anymore. They want to apologize to you, so they’re treating you to dinner.”

Marie: “…”

Lancelot and Ashley. They were Derrick’s buddies, the ones he was practically joined at the hip wi

And at the mention of those two, Marie remembered that night they had whisked Derrick away.

Marie shot Derrick a dark look.

Derrick: “Let’s go, let’s go.”

He pulled Marie up and started walking.

His buddies calling him crying every day wasn’t a sustainable situation. He had to deal with this.

If they wanted to stay in Falvaria, didn’t they need Marie to let go of her anger?

They couldn’t just get beaten up every time she saw them, like she did with Dan, right?

Derrick had spent the last few days reassuring Ashley and the others that Marie wouldn’t do that…

But they just didn’t believe him.

After witnessing the way Marie had beaten Dan, they were all terrified.

Marie was dragged away by Derrick. Stella pouted. “Derrick didn’t seem like such a coward before. How did he become so spineless that night?”

“It was the people around him who were spineless.”

Abraham said, rubbing her head.

Stella: “…”

The people around him!

Abraham: “After that night, several of Dan’s guys ended up in the hospital. They’re scared

It was true; the way Marie had beaten Dan was genuinely terrifying.

Enough about them.

Stella looked at Abraham with pleading eyes. “Can we have a buffet tonight?”

She hadn’t had a buffet in so long.

Ever since she got pregnant, Abraham had been especially strict about her diet.

Everything was so bland that Stella felt her mouth had lost all sense of taste.

Abraham: “Alright.”

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The moment she heard Abraham agree, Stella instantly berked up, staring at him in disbelief.

She scrambled to her feet, grabbed his hand, and her face lit up with a smile that could bloom fi

Every other time she had asked Abraham, he had denice her request.

Abraham: “Eating it once in a while is fine.”

Her pregnancy was still in the early stages before, but having it occasionally now was fine.

Stella nodded emphatically. “Mhm.”

She had been visibly unhappy lately because she couldn’t eat what she was craving.

Abraham, of course, had noticed.

“But we can’t eat out. I’ll have them make it at home.”

Stella: “That works, too!”

As long as she could have her buffet, she didn’t care where it was.

Seeing her being so agreeable, Abraham fondly pinched her cheek. He summoned the housekeeper. “We’ll be having a buffet tonight. Don’t make it too spicy.”

“Very good.”

The housekeeper nodded respectfully.

Abraham looked at Stella. “Is that okay?”

He was referring to the “not too spicy” part.

Back in Rivermount, she always ate her buffets very spicy.

Stella nodded. “Anything is fine.”

As long as it was a buffet, she didn’t care. If it couldn’t be too spicy, so be it.

Derrick took Marie back to the Tom family residence first before going to find Sebastian and the others.