Chapter 653 No Mercy
In the end, it always came down to him.
They were both his sons, yet to say Dale favored Manny would be an understatement. The word biased didn’t even begin to cover it.
Just as Dan finished giving orders-
Derrick arrived, dragging someone along with him.
The moment he entered, Derrick tossed the man onto the floor beside Dan’s hospital bed like a sack of trash.
Dan narrowed his eyes. “Mr. Derrick, what is the meaning of this?”
The man he’d thrown down–was one of Dan’s own men.
Seeing him, Dennis’s face changed drastically.
Derrick pulled up a chair and sat down, casually placing one foot on the man’s bruised and battered back.
A cigarette lit with a click.
He took a long drag, then looked toward Dan with mocking eyes. “Lost your temper and tried to kill her?”
Dan’s voice was low. “What are you talking about?”
His lips pressed into a thin line, a flash of danger flickering in his eyes.
It was clear–he didn’t understand what Derrick was implying.
Derrick held the cigarette between his fingers, smoke swirling around him, casting an even darker shadow over his already menacing presence.
“This guy isn’t one of yours?“.
His gaze dropped, eyeing the severely beaten man on the floor.
Dan followed his line of sight. As Derrick’s words settled in, the meaning finally clicked.
His breathing grew sharp as his dangerous gaze shifted to Dennis.
Dennis lowered his head, not daring to meet Dan’s eyes.
Dan didn’t respond, but Derrick didn’t wait.
He drew his gun and–bang!
The man on the floor didn’t even have time to cry out before he was dead.
And in the next moment, Derrick turned the gun on Dan.
The room went still.
The gunshot had turned the air in the ward razor–sharp. Dennis instinctively reached for the weapon at his waist.
But Derrick let out a cold chuckle. “Try that again. Go ahead.”
His voice was steeped in cold, lethal warning.
Dennis froze under that threat, not daring to move another inch. He stared at Derrick, whole body tense with alertness.
Derrick looked back at Dan.
His gaze full of scorn. “I’ve seen shameless bastards before, but you? You’re on a whole different level.”
“Play around with a woman and then call her crazy? Try to have her killed?”
The disgust in his voice was blatant.
Dan’s breath hitched. “She’s not hurt, is she?”
“You’re asking me?”
Dan fell silent.
She probably wasn’t hurt, right?
Was Derrick really out of his mind?
He killed a man–for Marie?
Could it be that he… felt something for her?
That thought drew a deeper chill into Dan’s eyes.
Outside the hospital.
As soon as Derrick got into the car, Kale–his driver–turned and said, “Sir, Madam left with Ms. Miller.”
Derrick raised an eyebrow. “She came back?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And who the hell is Ms. Miller?”
For a moment, Derrick couldn’t recall who that even was.
Kale explained, “She’s the one Mr. Victor brought back from Rivermount. Ms. Stella’s best friend.”
Derrick let out an “Oh” and finally remembered.
“She ran off with her? What–for drama with Stella?”
Speaking of Stella, Derrick’s heart now felt completely calm. No ripples.
No matter how badly he once wanted to marry her–ever since signing that marriage license with Marie…
He felt… free. Like a weight had lifted.
Like he’d finally achieved something that truly mattered.
Even now, with Marie running off with Stella’s best friend, Derrick honestly had no idea what was going on between them.

Comments
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....