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“What do you mean? Tessa is nothing but your excuse to move against the Ashen Pact! I knew it -someone like Mr. Victor would never go to war over a woman. So tell me, Mr. Victor, are you really going to deny that you’ve set your sights on something inside the Ashen Pact?”
Dale’s words came sharp and precise, every point hitting like a de. For a moment, it almost sounded convincing.
Victor nced at the photo in his hand, then back at Dale. His smile carried an edge of ice. “If Mr. Morris says so, then it must be true.”
Dale hadid it all out, but Victor brushed it aside with a single mocking line.
The words had barely left his mouth when Dale’s face sank.
His breathing turned harsh. “Then what is it you’re after in the Ashen Pact? What exactly do you want?”
The more he spoke, the harder his teeth ground together.
Victor released a slow breath of smoke, calm and deliberate. “What if I said… we want the entire Ashen Pact?”
Dale froze.
The room fell silent.
Darkness radiated from him, while Victor’s eyes gleamed with danger.
“So, Mr. Morris,” Victor said softly, “will you give it to us?”
The blunt demand cut through the air.
All they were after was what they wanted–then they’d be
gone.
The Ashen Pact was already in turmoil because of them. If they didn’t pull back soon, the Pact would be torn apart.
Dale knew he was at his breaking point.
Yet when Victor said he wanted the entire Ashen Pact, the thought sent a chill through his
bones.
“The entire Ashen Pact?” he growled.
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“Will you give it?” Victor asked again.
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The two words–will you–came off light, almost casual. But outside these walls, those same words weighed down like a storm.
Dale’s lips pressed into a hard line. “Your greed knows no bounds. And all of this, over Tessa? Aren’t you afraid people will see through it for what it is—just an excuse?”
Victor’sugh was low and merciless. “When have we ever cared about that?”
Dale fell quiet.
Silence thickened again.
Their eyes locked. Victor’s gaze was weightless, almost yful, yet full of mockery–mockery of Dale’s powerlessness.
And when Dale stared back into those eyes, something long–buried in his memory stirred.
I’ve <i>seen </i><i>those </i><i>eyes </i><i>before</i><i>… </i><i>so </i><i>familiar</i>. <i>But </i><i>where</i>?
He searched, deeper and deeper, but nothing surfaced.
Victor took another drag of his cigarette. “Mr. Morris, do you have anything else? If not, I have a beauty waiting for me.”
The word “beauty” slipped from Victor’s lips with azy arrogance, so at odds with the cold reputation that usually surrounded him.
Even Lewis, standing nearby, couldn’t help the twitch of his lips.
Seriously? Victor?
Blood boiled in Dale’s veins, reversing its course with rage. “Who’s the mastermind behind all this?”
Victor smirked. “Take a guess.”
Dale fell silent.
Victor’s gaze hardened. “The woman you cast aside only wanted to live her life. But you chose to drive her to the brink instead.”
A woman. Dale’s mind snapped to Diana.
“I never did,” he said coldly.
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Yes, he had sent people after her over the years–but only to reim what belonged to the Ashen Pact. That woman had yed him once, and she had yed him hard.
Victor’s voice cut through him. “But your people did.”
Dale stiffened.
<i>My </i>people?
So Diana wasn’t just brought back by Dan… She herself had been pushed to return, forced by the threat around her?
Dale’s brows furrowed. “Are you saying Diana is behind this?”
The name came outced with venom.
And in that instant, it was clear–if Diana truly was the mastermind, Dale wanted her dead.
Victor didn’t answer. He only gave him a cold, contemptuous smile.
“Lewis.”
“Yes, Victor?”
“See Mr. Morris out.”
The conversation had already ended the moment Victor said he wanted the entire Ashen Pact.
There was nothing left to discuss.
Dale shot him onest vicious look. His anger burned hot, but in the end, he stood and left.
Every step he took toward the door radiated cold fury.
But after two steps, something caught in his mind. He turned back, his gaze piercing. “Is there even a point in handing Tessa over now?”
Tessa,
At first, everything had seemed to begin with her. But after his own analysis, Dale was convinced–Tessa was nothing more than a pretext they used against the Ashen Pact. Why waste any more effort on her?
Victor’s eyes narrowed. “Do you really think your daughter is safe right now?”
He never answered the question directly.
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Because she wasn’t the only reason behind all this, did that mean there was no point in looking for Tessa anymore?
Even if her fate was unknown, was her father really this indifferent?
Dale went quiet.
<i>Safe</i>? Dale’s chest tightened. After all this time, he had never once truly looked his daughter in the eye.
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