The Wrong Girl and the Wronged Girl (Stella and Ethan) novel Chapter 769
Chapter 769 Never In Line Anyway
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As Victor and Maric pressed harder and harder, Manny held back from losing his temper at Dan, only because he realized Dan was already taking the heaviest blows.
Still, his tone was sharp. “Didn’t you used to have a thing with that Marie? Why is she coming at you so viciously?”
He was ready to explode. Tessa really wasn’t in our hands, she wasn’t!
Why couldn’t these people understand that? Yet somehow, the blame for her disappearance had all been dumped onto Ashen Pact. How does that make any sense?
If Manny hadn’t brought up that old entanglement, Dan might have stayed calm; but the moment it was mentioned, his face darkened instantly.
He shot Manny a chilling glare.
“What? Why are you looking at me like that?” Manny bristled. “I’m asking you straight—do you even know how to handle a woman?”
“I heard that when you went to Falvaria, she married Derrick. Is that true?”
Dan’s expression went blank. How had I never noticed before that this bastard Manny had such a talent for stabbing people right in the heart? Every syllable he flung at me sliced straight into my chest, each one a blade that stole my breath.
His fury burned so hot it hurt.
“Worry about yourself.”
“I’m saying all of this could be because of you and that woman. We’re the ones paying for it, don’t you get that?”
Seeing Dan lose his temper, Manny snapped right back. What the heck kind of mess is this?
At that, Dale seemed to wake from a dream.
He suddenly remembered Dan’s time in Falvaria with Marie.
Dale snorted coldly. “Stop saying that, I say this is all your doing.”
“Exactly!” Manny jumped in.
Once they realized this tidal wave crashing over Ashen Pact might have started with Dan’s personal affairs, both Dale and Manny nearly blew their tops.
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Chapter 769 Never in Line Anyway
What the heck is this supposed to be? Dan’s face was thunderous.
“Fine, say it’s because of me.”
He didn’t care.
“You-” Dale began.
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“If it’s because of you, then fix it!” Manny barked. “Do you even know how to coax a woman?”
The more he talked, the hotter he got.
Dale added his voice. “Whatever’s between you and her–settle it.”
“You ought to learn from Dad how to handle women,” Manny jabbed.
Dale froze.
The air went still.
Especially when Dale turned his gaze on Manny–so cold it was as though he could swallow him whole.
Dan gave a sharp, mirthless laugh. “You’re right; I really should learn from him. Only, his kind of talent…’
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He paused.
Then, meeting Dale’s dark stare, his smile curved with biting mockery. “His kind of talent- who knows if it’s really about coaxing women, or just coaxing his own delusions of grandeur?”
The air froze again.
Especially that last line–coaxing his own delusions–dripped with pointed meaning.
Who knew what Dan had been implying in the shadows of his words.
He walked out.
That left only Manny and Dale behind. Dale, furious, downed an entire glass of water, but it did nothing to ease the heaviness in his chest.
“Dad,” Manny fumed, “he’s getting more and more out of line with you!”
And what had he meant by those words? Especially that last part, it carried the sting of futility, like chasing smoke with bare hands.
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Dale lit a cigar. “When has he ever been in line with me?”
His voice was thick with irritation.
Manny fell silent.
He had to admit, Dale was right–Dan had never been in line.
Dan headed downstairs.
He ran straight into Lina, who called out, “Dan.”
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Though she held plenty of resentment toward him–resentment that he was always at odds with their mother–she still showed him respect on the surface.
Her mind was sharp.
Especially with Dan proving his capabilities year after year, she couldn’t tell who would ultimately come out on top–Dan, or her own side.
Dan ignored her completely, walking straight past.
Behind him, Lina’s lips twisted with annoyance. What’s there to be so arrogant about?
All of Ashen Pact’s troubles right now came from him.
In the study, Lina burst in. “Dad, this has gone too far. Are we really going to just sit here and wait to die?”
Her voice was burning with rage,
Just thinking about the call she’d received that morning was enough to make her blood boil.
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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....