Chapter 329 You Don’t Get to Tell Me What to Do
Chapter 329 You Don’t Get to Tell Me What to Do
“Yeah.”
Finn answered absentmindedly, sounding irritated.
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Nadine nced over at him nervously, then lowered her gaze, looking both wronged and dejected.
Kylie stepped forward to shield her. She couldn’t help but say to Finn, “Mr. Lock, I have no idea what Tess told you after she got out of prison, but she grew up with me and her grandmother. She’s been a liar since she was a child. Why else would I have left my own daughter for my mother to raise? And now, even as an adult, she still lies to get her way. She even ndered the woman who saved my life!”
Her anger red as she spoke, and she pulled up the death certificate on her phone to show Finn.
After Henry got back to Ember Group, he had his assistant send Kylie the certificate.
Finn had heard a few things about the Embers. He vaguely remembered the car ident from more than 10 years ago.
Shannon fell off a cliff while trying to protect Kylie. People said there hadn’t even been aplete body to recover. Her remains were left at a funeral home for two days before they were quickly cremated.
Even if Tess had a grudge against the Embers, she shouldn’t have dragged Shannon into it.
Finn’s expression grew colder, his face unreadable in the dim light.
“I’ll take care of it.”
He replied quietly and had Zane drive the two women home.
Night settled in, but Tess still hadn’t returned.
ncing up at the thick night sky, Finn crouched by the light, his shadow cast long and lonely.
Just then, a pair of elegant Cavrielle leather ts came into his view.
He looked up abruptly.
Tess was standing in front of him.
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Chapter 329 You Don’t Get to Tell Me What to Do
Her face was nk, and her eyes were devoid of emotion.
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Looking at her, Finn felt as if something had mmed into his chest. He opened his mouth, but the words caught in his throat.
“Did you bring them here this afternoon?”
It was Tess who spoke first.
She’d left to take care of other things beforeing back to Evermount Height, mostly to avoid that mob.
She just hadn’t expected Finn to still be here.
Finn heard the me in her tone and stood up to exin, “It was Henry.”
Tess’s brow tightened, but she didn’t say anything.
There was no reason for Finn to lie about this, but how did Henry know where she lived?
She pushed aside the fleeting suspicion.
“Mr. Lock, how much longer are you nning to stay?”
Her voice was cold, a touch of mockery in her tone.
“Are you targeting Ember Group?”
Finn dodged the question, bringing up something else.
Tess arched an eyebrow slightly.
Their eyes locked–his as deep as the sea, hers as frosty as fresh snow.
Only then did Tess realize how calm she felt facing Finn now.
“I’m just taking back what belongs to me.”
She lifted her eyes, her gaze sharper and more warning than before.
Tess could now talk to Finn without getting worked up, but if he tried to stand in her way, not even the Lock Group could stop her from carrying out her ns.
Especially since all of Henry’s funding for Ember Group hade from the Larsons. He always imed it was the Larsons‘pensation for Kylie, but that wasn’t true.
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Back when Kylie insisted on running away with Henry, Gillian was upset but still helped. She bailed out Ember Group every time they lost money.
Without Gillian and the Larsons, Henry and the Ember Group would have been nothing.
Tess sneered to herself. <i>Everything </i><i>I’m </i><i>doing </i><i>is </i><i>justified</i>.
Everything Henry fought so hard for–everything he was never meant to have–she would take them all back.
“Do you really have to be so stubborn? If what happened today gets out online, your recent rifications will all be for nothing.”
Finn frowned, trying to reason with her.
But Tess only smiled dismissively, “People have said worse things about me.”
In the silence of the night, her pale face and red lips made her look almost unreal—a little ghostly, a little wild.
To Finn, she suddenly felt like a stranger, as if she were a drifting spirit or a wisp of fog- something that could disappear at any moment.
“Tess, you hate the Embers, but this has nothing to do with Nadine. She’s only ever wanted to get along with you. You shouldn’t use herte mother against her.”
Finn suddenly blurted it out. The second the words left his mouth, he was shocked himself.
He looked up, and sure enough, Tess’s face darkened, the mockery at her lips turning icy.
“I … ”
Finn started to exin, but Tess cut him off. “Finn, you’re thest person who gets to tell me what to do. Whatever bond we had ended a year ago.”
She stared him down coldly, her mind shing back to all the pain she’d suffered in prison.
How could I <i>have </i>spoken to <i>him </i>so <i>calmly </i><i>just </i><i>now</i><i>? </i>
A rush of absurdity overwhelmed her.
The Embers might have treated her terribly, but her grandmother always did her best to protect her. In truth, the pain and hardship in her life came from the man standing before her.
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