The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 604 The Setup Stella went quiet.

She and Marie locked eyes, and for a second, Stella struggled to keep a straight face..

Marie let out a sharp breath and hung up the call, then turned to Stella. "Didn't we agree this had to be someone familiar?" Stella looked surprised.

Wait... it wasn'tMorris? "Whoever did this clearly knew something about you. Everyone in Falvaria knows who you are. You think any random guy would dare cafter you?" Marie shook her head. "Not a chance." "Exactly," Stella said. "So it's either Morris trying to get back at you for marrying Derrick, or someone's out to screw you over-on purpose." Marie fell silent. Revenge? A setup? "But didn't Morris's guys just say he was with them the whole night?" she asked.

So that means... it wasn't Morris last night? Shit. That made things a whole lot worse.

Stella nodded. "Which only leaves one option-someone's deliberately targeting you." Marie sat still.

Targeting her? In Falvaria? Who'd even dare? Stella looked at her seriously. "Whoever it was had to hate you enough to risk everything. They knew what they were doing." No doubt. In Stella's eyes, only someone with a death wish would cafter Marie. If someone really did, it meant they wanted to destroy her completely.

"Hate me?" Marie muttered, her mind suddenly fuzzy.

"Can you think of another reason?" Marie muttered, “If we're talking about people in Falvaria who hate me, that list is actually kind of long." She wasn't wrong. There were plenty who didn't like her.

Stella waved that off. “Those people are just jealous. That's not the sas hate.” Marie blinked, caught off guard. Right. That was true. Most of those people didn't hate her-they were just petty, bitter, or threatened.

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"So what you're saying is, if it wasn't Morris, then it was someone who seriously wants to destroy me?" Stella nodded. "Back when I lived in Rivermount, Lillian used to pull stunts like this all the time. Sweet on the surface, but always scheming underneath." So all that stuff in Rivermount was just scarefully planned act? Marie murmured, "Someone who hates me... really, truly hates me..." She repeated it softly, mind racing, flipping through every possible enemy. And not once did she feel even slightly guilty for beating Morris earlier. Nope. All her energy was focused on figuring out who had tried to ruin her. Then, suddenly, a npopped into her head.

"Wait-I've got it." "Who?" Stella asked quickly.

Marie raised her hand, snapping her fingers. "What's her nagain... the one who's always around Morris... Ella?" Stella raised a brow. "Ella?" Marie nodded firmly. “Yeah. Morris has been all overlately, and Ella's his fiancée. No doubt she hates my guts." Unbelievable. Her man betrays her, and she comes afterinstead of yelling at Morris? Thinking about it now... Morris's beatdown this morning didn't even seem that unfair anymore.

He was still part of the reason she got dragged into this mess.

"That actually makes a lot of sense," Stella said.

Marie shot to her feet, sending the dining chair crashing to the floor behind her with a loud thud.

Just the thought that Ella might've been the one who set her up made her blood boil.

"I'm going to kill her." She meant it. She wasn't the type to let something like this slide. Not even for a second.

Before Stella could react, Marie grabbed her jacket on instinct.

Her hands shook, the gun slipped, and it hit the ground-but she recovered instantly, grabbed it, and stormed out without a word.

213 00:32 Tue, Aug 5 Chapter 604 The Setup Stella blinked. "Uh..." D X Finished Slam. The door slammed shut behind her.

The door slammed shut behind her.

Marie was gone-charging out with such force no one even thought about stopping her. Abraham and Derrick cdownstairs just as Stella was staring blankly at the entryway.

A She still had a spoon in her hand. The soup inside had spilled all over the table. She didn't even notice.

She looked completely stunned.

Abraham strode into the dining room. "What are you staring at?" Stella blinked and turned to him. "Um... Marie just left. I think she's going after Ella." She was still trying to catch up.

God, with how fast and fiery Marie is, no one ever really has tto react.

Stella added, "It turns out what happened last night... it wasn't Morris."

Oh no. If it wasn't Morris, then who the hell was it? Did Ella just find srandom guy to do this that would NO guy make things even worse. With Marie's temper, she'd destroy Ella without a second thought. Abraham narrowed his eyes. "It wasn't Morris?" He instinctively glanced over at Derrick.

But Derrick's face... was hard to read. Confused, off, and a little too quiet.

"Yeah," Stella said. "Morris was with his men all night. He never went to see Marie." Abraham frowned. "So she's going after Ella now?"

"She must be," Stella said quickly. "Ella's probably pissed over howm Morris has been acting around Marie lately. So yeah... it makes sense she'd try to set Marie up. Abraham and Derrick stayed silent.

Stella kept talking, but Derrick's expression only got more complicated by the second.

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