Chapter 644 The Matriarch’s Return
“Shut your mouth,” Dale snapped.
Dan smirked. “Father, you really pulled every string for that woman, didn’t you?”
Dale’s face darkened, a dangerous flash lighting up his eyes.
Dan continued. “If you were really so capable, you wouldn’t have needed to rely on a woman. You schemed your way to everything using her, and then had the nerve to call her child an obstacle to your grand romantic future?”
“Dan!”
Dale’s voice rose in fury, his gaze sharp and cold like a blade.
Dan stared back with the same ruthless glare.
“What a pity. You plotted everything so carefully, and still didn’t count on the Matriarch being smarter than my mother. She played you before you could toss her aside.”
Diana had escaped with half the map.
It had been enough to throw the entire Ashen Pact into internal chaos.
And his own mother? She ended up dying in Dale’s place, paving the way for Dale’s love story with that woman.
At the mention of Diana, Dale’s face turned stone cold.
A chilling aura surrounded him—far more dangerous than before.
Dan only laughed at the sight.
“You brought her back on purpose? Have you been helping wipe her tracks all these years too?”
The more Dale spoke, the darker his voice became.
He had been searching for Diana for years–and had never found her.
He always suspected someone was hiding her trail, but it never crossed his mind that it could be Dan.
After all, Diana’s influence in the Ashen Pact was immense.
As long as she was alive, she was a threat—not just to Dan, but even more so to Dale and Manny.
Dan said, “What else was I supposed to do? If the Matriarch hadn’t returned, you’d be trying to strip every bit of power from me and hand it over to Manny, wouldn’t you?”
Well now, things had changed.
Diana had returned. The Ashen Pact’s only female ruler–respected, revered, and feared.
Now Dale and Manny had their hands full. They couldn’t even begin to worry about Dan.
Dale said nothing.
Dan clicked his tongue mockingly. “I helped you find her. Whether or not you can get that missing half of the map from her for Manny–well, that’s your problem.”
Everyone said the Ashen Pact was deep.
But no one truly knew how deep.
Diana had only given birth to a daughter–not a threat to anyone. But now Dale was panicking?
And back then, Dan had been the Ashen Pact’s rightful eldest son…
Dale slammed the door as he stormed out.
Moments later, Dennis entered. “Sir.”
Dan asked lazily, “Why’d he show up today?”
There was a hint of playfulness in his tone, like he was humoring himself. Strange.
He’d been in Falvaria all this time, and Dale hadn’t called once. All his scheming had been for Manny, done in secret.
And now, suddenly, he showed up?
Dennis explained, “Last night, Miss Lana tried to capture Madam Miller’s daughter–but Mr. Victor’s men severely injured her.”
Dan narrowed his eyes. “That hag actually went after the Matriarch’s daughter?”
Dennis nodded.
Dan let out a dry chuckle. “Well, she’s kicked the hornet’s nest now. Women… once they become mothers, the strength they have is something else entirely.”
A flash of memory–his mother’s final letter–flitted through Dan’s mind.
And the smile on his lips disappeared instantly.

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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....