The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In novel Chapter 568

Chapter 568 The Man with a Death Wish

Abel said, “It’s true. Right after Miss Stella hit her, Lilian was hospitalized and diagnosed with a whole bunch of conditions.”

“A whole bunch? Marie raised an eyebrow.

“So she tried to act all fragile and pin the blame on my poor Stella?”

If that were the case, she’d definitely make another trip to Rivermount just to teach Lilian a second lesson.

Abel replied, “There was no way to blame her. Illness and being beaten up are completely separate things.

Marie nodded. “Good point.”

Abel continued, “But after that, there was a–whole series of moves designed to drive a wedge between Miss Stella and the Reed family.”

Marie snorted. “The Reed family? Who even cares about them? That relationship was never worth anything to begin with.”

“Exactly. That’s Miss Stella’s attitude too. So afterward, both Ethan and Jonathan got beaten up. Pretty badly.”

Good. The worse, the better. If it hadn’t been bad enough, she’d have to go finish the job herself.

She’d actually been trying to clear her schedule lately to head back to Rivermount and deal a few more blows.

But Derrick and Dan, those two damn nuisances, had been keeping her tied up.

Just as Marie was about to say more, her phone rang. It was Dan.

She declined the call immediately.

Speak of the devil.

The moment she hung up, he called again. Marie blocked the number without hesitation.

Then an unfamiliar number texted her: Want me to wait for you outside the Dawson family estate?

This lunatic!

She called the number directly. He picked up almost immediately, and she spoke first: “Say it. What do you want?”

Dan said, “Divorce Derrick. Do it now.”

The last three words were practically shouted.

Marie’s mouth twitched. “Are you insane?”

Divorce Derrick? This lunatic thought he could just order her around?

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Dan said, “Tomorrow. Ten a.m. I’ll be waiting outside the civil affairs office. If you don’t show

He trailed off ominously.

Hearing the gritted teeth over the phone, Marie was speechless.

Most people give you three days, maybe a week, even a month…

This guy? Probably only because it was nighttime—otherwise, he wouldn’t even give her that.

But still… What the hell was he doing waiting outside the civil affairs office if she was divorcing Derrick?

“Wait, what are you even doing there?”

She honestly didn’t understand.

Marie felt like her whole world had been tossed into chaos lately. Everything these people did came one after another with no rhyme or reason. It was frying her brain.

Dan said, “I want to see it with my own eyes.”

He needed to see them divorce, in person?

How much did this man hate her marriage to Derrick? He couldn’t even relax without personally witnessing the end of it?

But what made him think he could decide if this marriage ended?

With Derrick’s current situation, not only could they not get divorced–if Dan kept stirring the pot, Derrick might just skin him alive.

Marie sucked in a breath. “Are you still at the hospital?”

“…Why?”

“If you are, tell your people to check if the neurologist is still on shift.”

“I really think you’ve got a serious brain issue,”

If his brain worked even slightly, there’s no way he’d say something this ridiculous.

Dan growled, “Marie!”

“Yell all you want. Go get your brain checked. You might even need to be committed.”

This man seriously had something wrong upstairs.

Marie hung up without another word.

She turned to Abel. “My brother had you look into this guy, right?”

Since Abraham knew about this before she did, he had to have investigated.

Abel nodded. “Yeah.”

Marie asked, “Was his amnesia real?”

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She’d never really believed Dan’s so–called memory loss.

Abel hesitated for a moment when she brought it up. After a brief pause, he said, “Mr. Morris’s amnesia was real. But after he left Falvaria, he disappeared for six months. We still don’t know where he went.”

“Six months gone?” Marie echoed.

Abel nodded. “Yeah. We haven’t been able to pinpoint where he was during that time.”

There was speculation he’d gone to Mont City, but that turned out to be wrong.

So no one really knew where Dan had been during that half–year.

In any case, everything about how he ended up back in Marie’s life seemed suspicious.

Marie went silent.

Half a year… Disappearing right after leaving Falvaria?

That couldn’t be innocent.

She thought for a second and looked at Abel again. “What about his death?”

If he disappeared for that long, there had to be something shady involved. So was his “death” even real?

Abel said, “From what we’ve gathered, Mr. Morris took a fake–death drug at the time. Whether he took it himself or was given it by someone else… that part we still don’t know.”

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