StartNovelChapter 710 The Poison Beneath
“Dale’s saving everything for Manny. You, Dan-you’re nothing in his eyes.”
The word nothing dripped sharp from Derrick’s tongue.
Dan’s laugh was bitter. “Fine. I'm nothing. You're everything, is that it?”
“Mm. I'm still Marie's husband.”
Marie couldn't say a word.
Marie nearly choked. Childish, much?
Dan's fury boiled through the receiver. “Then take her and get the hell out of Noctarth. Get out and never come
back!”
“You drugged her and now you tellto leave? What does that make me-less than a man?” Derrick’s voice was
like steel.
“What's that supposed to mean?”
“It means if Tessa isn’t handed over, we're not done with Ashen Pact. Dan, if you don’t want this place ripped
apart, then produce her.”
Marie blaming him was one thing-her mind had long since been poisoned against him. In her eyes, every crime
wore his name.
But Derrick too? Did he really have no brains left?
Dan’s chest burned, his breath hot with rage. “Enough! | didn’t take her. Derrick, are you even a man? The last
shitstorm, | took the fall for you. And now with Tessa, you and Marie both dump it onagain?”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtThe more he spoke, the hotter his blood surged.
He remembered that humiliation-Marie leading her people to beat him and his brothers bloody.
Over that.
And even then, he had been beaten on Derrick’s account.
Now Derrick dared say he was the one with grudges unswallowed?
Dan's breaths cragged and sharp. “I don’t have tfor your nonsense. Get out!”
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Harsh as he had been with Dale, Ashen Pact was still his mother’s dying charge. He couldn't destroy it. He
couldn't walk away from it.
“Hand Tessa over,” Derrick said coldly, “and we'll leave immediately.”
Clearly, he too was convinced someone in the Moory family had taken her-if not Dan, then Dale or Manny.
Victor was not a man to provoke.
“If you stole her, return her. Then we can still talk,” Derrick sneered.
“I told you-I didn’t!” Dan roared.
Where was justice? It was enough to drive him mad.
“Then go ask your father and your brother,” Derrick snapped.
Dan's jaw locked. Dale had already denied it.
Before he could retort, the line went dead.
His temples pounded with rage.
“Turn around. Back to Black Mountain.”
If Tessa wasn’t handed over, Derrick and Marie would tear Ashen Pact apart piece by piece.
Damn lunatics.
For the first time, he regretted stepping into Marie's sight so soon. He should have waited until Ashen Pact’s
storm had passed. But instead... he had let himself hope.
The thought only deepened his irritation.
Twenty minutes later.
Dan returned to face Dale again. This tArtemis was there too.
At the sight of him, Artemis faltered, then softly, “Dan.”
He didn’t even glance her way.
Her expression clouded with sadness as she turned to Dale. His glare only grew darker.
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The crack of his fist on the desk echoed. “What's that attitude?”
Dan arched a cold brow. “If you want to talk about attitude-"
“Enough. Don’t quarrel with the boy,” Artemis cut in smoothly.
She was past fifty, yet her beauty glowed as though she were barely thirty.
No wonder Dale had been enthralled all these years.
“Letgo. You two should talk, not
fight,” she coaxed, Hugging Génth at
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“No need to leave. | have questions for you.”
The loathing in his tone was unmistakable.
Dale surged with anger, ready to erupt, but Artemis stilled him with a single glance.
And just like that, the raging lion swallowed his fury.
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