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Victor didn’t speak as he met Tessa’s eyes.
“I hate him too,” Tessa said quietly.
Of course she did.
Victor had his reasons for hating Dale. And as his daughter, so did she.
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From the moment she learned who Dale was-ever since Lina and Lana had tracked her to Victor's villa and
nearly killed her-whatever bond they had as father and daughter was doomed. There had never been much to
begin with. Hatred was all that remained.
Victor pulled her head against his chest. “Tess.”
Her muffled voice cfrom against him. “All | care about is my mom. So from now on, don’t bring him up with
me.”
“You're right. | shouldn't have,” Victor answered, his voice low.
Tessa fell silent.
Victor's tone sharpened as he spoke. “He doesn’t even know you. He knows you exist, but he’s never once tried
to see you.”
Dale knew he had a daughter out there named Tessa. But he had never cared enough to meet her.
Even when Diana’s world collapsed, when she was left with no one, he still didn’t come.
He left her to suffer alone, left her to survive danger on her own.
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Dale only acknowledged the children Artemis bore him.
Any child from another woman meant nothing to him-he was so heartless he erased them from his world.
Tessa’s throat tightened. “He doesn’t even recognize me?”
“That's right. Just now, he shoved your photo in my face and demanded an answer-"
“Demanded what?” she cut in.
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Victor glanced down at her. The first the saw her at Rivermount, she had caught his instantly, radiant in her
own way.
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She had grown up with only her mother, but Diana had raised her to be lively, confident, and cherished.
But when the Morris family cand tore Diana away, they shattered Tessa’s world too.
Victor's voice was flat. “He askedwhich one of my women you were. He said the only reason | went after the
Ashen Pact was because | was using you as a cover.”
Tessa gasped. “What?”
“He even said he didn’t need to find you. That he could just hand you over if necessary,” Victor added.
For the next ten minutes, Victor repeated every word Dale had thrown at him.
The more Tessa listened, the darker her expression grew.
She had already despised Dale, but now her disgust curdled into pure hatred.
“So what he meant was-if I'm just a cover for you against the Ashen Pact, then | don’t matter? He doesn’t even
care if | live or die?”
He'd taken her photo and shoved it at Victor, without even recognizing her as his own daughter.
Worse, he assumed she was just another of Victor's women and decided that meant she wasn’t important
enough to bother with.
So he could just skip the trouble of looking for her altogether.
Cold. Ruthless.
He was one of the most heartless fathers alive. To him, his children’s lives or deaths meant nothing.
Victor's voice was hard. “Your life means nothing to him. The only thing he cares about is whether the Ashen Pact
survives.”
And the Ashen Pact’s survival mattered only because it tied into Manny's future profits.
Tessa'’s lips trembled. “So he really said not to bother looking for me?”
Victor gave a single nod.
He told her all this for a reason-so that if Dale ever tried to twist things in front of her, she
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If Dale ever claimed she was just Victor's pawn, the blow would be far worse coming from him than from Victor
himself.
Tessa’s face heated with anger, her cheeks flushing red.
She glared up at Victor. “Then am | just a cover for you against the Ashen Pact?”
Victor said nothing.
This girl...
Call her naive if you want, but sometimes she was sharp in ways that cut too deep.
“Tess,” he murmured.
“If I'm your cover, then fine,” she snapped. “Show Dale exactly how you'll useto bring him down!”
Victor stayed quiet.
Tessa had never expected much from Dale as a father.
But hearing Victor say Dale had dismissed her as nothing more than a pawn—
Hearing that he didn’t even care if she lived or died—
That burned worse than anything.
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Even though she and Abraham hadn't yet held their wedding, everyone knew they were already legally married.
Except for the ceremony itself, Stella already had everything.
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