Chapter 642 The One Who Took the Fall
Just thinking about how savage Marie had looked that day made Dan’s chest tighten again.
Especially since everyone who’d been playing cards with him got dragged into it too.
Dennis said, “She only hit you because she happened to be in Falvaria that day. Just wait till she comes back -she’ll definitely go after Mr. Derrick. And at least she had some feelings for you before, so she held back. She won’t do the same for Mr. Derrick.”
He really shouldn’t have brought up the word feelings.
As soon as Dennis mentioned it, Dan’s teeth ground together in fury. “You think she looked like someone who still had feelings for me that day?”
Was that what feelings looked like?
She had been like some emotionless predator–cold, brutal, completely heartless.
If that woman had even a sliver of affection for him left, she never would’ve beaten him into the hospital.
Dennis heard the rage in Dan’s voice.
He paused, then said, “Ms. Dawson already knows about how you faked your death and disappeared back then.”
Tessa went still.
The moment she heard that, her eyes lit up.
Whoa…
Faked his death?
That’s juicy. Trash man’s got some bold moves.
Dan also fell silent.
The air in the hospital room suddenly grew heavy, the shadows deepening across Dan’s face.
Seething with rage, he picked up the phone and called Derrick again.
Dan was especially furious that Marie refused to believe it had been Derrick who slept with her.
As soon as the call connected, Derrick didn’t even wait for Dan to speak.
“Dan, what the hell is wrong with you?”
“Oh, wait–I forgot. You are messed up. Only someone with serious brain damage would fake their own death like that.”
Dan went quiet.
Why did Derrick, a grown man, have a mouth as venomous as a woman’s?
Marie had been cursing him out constantly lately, and now even Derrick was rubbing it in?
The more he thought about it, the angrier Dan got.
Especially thinking about how Marie and Derrick had gotten married–right under his nose, no less.
Just thinking about it made his blood boil.
Dan ground his teeth. “Do you have the balls to say it to her face? If you dare tell her yourself, I’ll actually admit you’re a real man.”
He’d figured it out.
No matter how many times he told Marie it had been Derrick that night, she just wouldn’t believe him.
And that’s probably why Derrick hadn’t been beaten up–because she didn’t believe it.
She actually… trusted Derrick that much?
That made Dan even more furious.
Derrick chuckled. “Who says I didn’t tell her?”
Dan froze. “You told her?”
But now Derrick had confessed to her directly, and she still thought he was just covering for Dan?
Jesus Christ, he was the one getting blamed here!
And Derrick just kept rubbing it in. “Looks like my wife’s still pretty loyal. At least she doesn’t throw me under the bus.”
Dan went quiet.
No–she hadn’t thrown him under the bus.
She’d handed Derrick the perfect excuse to say he was covering for someone else.
She really knew how to twist it, didn’t she?
She’d practically gift–wrapped the shitstorm and dumped it on his head.
Dennis kept trying to calm him down, but it was useless. Dan was so furious he passed out right then and there.
Dennis was stunned.
“Doctor! Quick, my boss passed out again!”
Outside the door, Tessa heard them calling for a doctor and quickly pulled her ear away from the door.
But she moved too fast and toppled right into Victor’s arms.
Victor frowned. “You-”
Tessa whispered, “Ah! Go, go! They’re gonna catch us!”
Victor looked down at her panicked little face, a soft light flickering in his eyes. He scooped her up and strode quickly away from Dan’s hospital room.
Later, after the doctor hooked Tessa up to an IV—
Her little face was even redder than before, partly from the fever and partly from how flustered she’d been.
She’d been full of energy while eavesdropping, but now that she was lying on the bed, she looked a bit limp.
Victor handed her a glass of water. “You really like eavesdropping that much?”

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The readers' comments on the novel: The Wrong Girl and the Wronged Girl (Stella and Ethan)
Ch 489 Doesn’t this prove that Dan doesn’t actually have amnesia? Why would he go to the island with a strange woman and why would he steal from Derrick? He doesn’t know them....
Ch 488 I feel like this is going to be what Stella stole in his study in Pagenda or wherever his estate was....
Ch 485 I thought it was going to be the Reed family mine that she robbed, thus taking the Keenes product and leaving them in that situation....
Ch 483 o then, how did the Reeds fine her? How did they not know where she was from?...
Ch 477 Definitely hidden pedo in here, referring to tiny women as little girls in every way possible....
Ch 468 How could Stella inherit her adopted father’s weak stomach constitution?...
Ch 468 Abraham and Marie’s mother has been called Evelyn, Diane and Loretta.. which is it? Evelyn has been the most used....
Ch 465 She still doesn’t know the mistress is Lillian’s aunt?...
Ch 464 Why didn’t she kick her out herself be for she went to attack the mistress…...
Ch 463 This is stupid now. I understand being scared in his presence enough to not think straight, but she’s a lone more often than not and has plenty of time to think things through, especially if she has time to get gossip from Rivermount and report to Stella....