The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 635 Keep Your Hand Right There The moment Victor cwalking over, Lewis froze; his first instinct was to call out, “Big Brother." But with a simple hand gesture, Victor shut him up.

He waved Lewis off, signaling for him to leave.

Lewis nodded and left.

Finished Tessa still felt like the position Lewis had taught her wasn't quite right-she couldn't even see the target point clearly.

Just as she was about to adjust- Suddenly, a strong hand wrapped around her waist. A man's hand gripped her wrist, guiding her movements...

Tessa's breath hitched; she instinctively tried to move away.

But then, she heard his low voice, laced with heat and restraint, "Don't move." It was Victor.

His warm breath brushed against the side of her neck, sending a flush of warmth across her skin; it made her pulse flutter.

C "Lift it a little higher," he murmured.

"Like this?" Tessa asked.

Victor replied, "Fire." At his command, Tessa pulled the trigger-and this time, hit the bullseye dead center.

Before Victor arrived, she had already trained with Lewis for an hour. She'd gone from being too scared to even fire a gun, to have her arms ache from the recoil.

Surprisingly, the sTessa who had grown especially prone to tears around Victor lately had managed to tough it out today.

Her arms, especially the web of her thumb, were already numb from the repeated shocks.

But still, she persisted.

From discovering the truth about her past, to having her identity revealed, to almost being kidnapped last night, every moment had cso suddenly.

Tessa understood now, twasn't on her side.

As she stared at the bullet hole in the center of the target, Victor's hand tightened slightly around her waist.

A deep glint flickered in his eyes. “What made you want to learn to shoot all of a sudden? Because of last night?" Tessa nodded, then added, "What's happening with my mom, it's only just beginning." 1/3 15:44 Sat, 30 Aug 0 Chapter 635 Keep Your Hand Right There Starting her own path was only the first step.

15% Finished What happened years ago had never truly ended. And because this was only the beginning, the hardships and brutality still to cwere impossible to predict.

Tessa had never been the sentimental type.

She adapted quickly; this shift in mindset wasn't sudden at all.

Victor said, "You don't actually need to do this." As his woman, he would protect her.

"Because you'll protect me?" Tessa asked.

"Not interested?" he shot back.

"It's not that." A secure life like Stella's, safe and sheltered even in the midst of chaos-who wouldn't want that.

Of course, Tessa did too.

But even Stella, as protected as she was, had been forced to flee Falvaria three years ago.

From what she'd said, if it weren't for her combat skills, she wouldn't have survived what she'd encountered out there.

"Being protected and being able to blend in, they're the sthing, really." Tessa took a deep breath as she spoke.

Her future would inevitably be one of walking on knives-there was no changing that now.

So, she would adapt to it.

Victor's lips curved slightly; he brushed her forehead with his hand. "Not bad-you've got a strong mind after all." That whiny, teary version of her earlier had driven him nuts.

He'd honestly been wondering how long she was planning to cry; didn't expect her to snap out of it so fast.

Not that her tears had been unwelcome, necessarily.

They just gave off a different kind of feeling....

Still, if she wanted to train and learn real skills, he wouldn't stop her. At the very least, in case of emergency, she wouldn't be totally defenseless.

"The Ashen Pact is in a pretty chaptic state right now. If you want to help your mom, it's not going to be easy." "What kind of chaos?" she asked.

The moment she heard the word chaos, Tessa's heart began to pound. She had the gut-wrenching feeling 2/3 15:44 Sat, 30 Aug 0 Chapter 635 Keep Your Hand Right There everything was teetering on the edge of disaster.

Finished She didn't even want to imagine what kind of storms her mom might be caught in.

Victor said, "From what I can tell, it's not just your mom versus the current leader." Tessa was stunned.

Victor's hand still rested on her waist.

"Your father, Dale, and his current wife........ apparently they have more En than one son." "What?" Tessa said, wide-eyed.

More than one son? Just how fertile is that woman? She'd already had a ?She'd already had a set of twins, now there were more? Victor added, "There's another son; he's fighting for power with the current leader too." Tessa was stunned again. How many sons are we talking here? "Then what about Dale? Whose side is he on?" Tessa pondered. Good grief, this whole thing's a complete mess.

"My mom... was she found by the current leader?" Victor said, "Yes." Which meant things were even more tangled than they appeared.

Tessa's thoughts kept spinning. She didn't know enough about the Ashen Pachto grasp how deep this mess ran.

But one thing was crystal clear in her mind, she had to help her mother as soon as possible.

Those people were bullying her mom... and just thinking about it made her heart ache.

"What's the current leader of the Ashen Pact called again?" she asked.

Everything had been so chaotic lately.

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