Chapter 383 The Truth She Could Not Ignore

Still no response from Victor.

Tessa grew more anxious by the second. She looked up nervously to meet Victor’s gaze.

But the moment she did, she quickly lowered her head again.

His eyes are terrifying

Especiallywith that tattoo onhisneck, he looks dangerous from everyangle.

She swallowed hard. “I–I just want to know who took my clothes off.”

Victor said calmly, “Does it matter?”

Tessa was stunned.

What kind of answer is that?

“It doesn’t matter?”

She looked up again, this time with tears in her eyes.

I’mreallyupset. I hadneverbeensohumiliatedinmy life. This was nothing liketheworld I onceknew.

All that danger… it used tofeelsofaraway.

Tobetreatedlikethis by a man, I had never even imagined it.Butnow…

Victor replied flatly, “I took them off. So what?”

Tessa stunned again

The air went still again.

Even the tears in her eyes froze.

Victor stared at her. “Is thereaproblem?”

Tessa asked softly, “Isn’tthat… a problem?”

Victor said coldly, “What are you going to do about it?”

Therewas a threatening edge to his voice,andthepressurearoundhim was sointensethatI couldn’tsayanother word.

Just like at the airport, he had taken liberties with me then, too.

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Texa looked down pitifully and picked at herrice. “Nothing

The one word sounded completely defeated.

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The way she stirred her bowl, it looked more like she was digging up Victor’s ancestral grave than eating dinner

Victor chuckled softly. With your body, even if you offered yourself to me. I wouldn’t want it

Tessa almost jumped

Wouldnt

Her mind flashedbackto all the gossip Stellahadonce told her.

When she looked up again, shock had completely replaced fear inhereyes.

Victor put down his wine glass and gave her a sharp look. “What’s with that face?”

“Nothing!” Tessa shook her head immediately.

So what Star had said is truct

That meant I had nothing to worry about. If he couldn’t do anything then he couldn’t have done anything to

However,just because he couldn’t, it didn’t mean he could randomly undress people.

Even if he couldn’t do anything others wouldn’t care why, they would just say that I was seen naked by a

And they wouldn’t say he couldn’t. They just judge me.

She turned away, clutching her bowl. “Anyway, you can’t take my clothes off again.”

Victor raised an eyebrow. “Again?

Tessa was stunned.

Ligh

What did he mean by that?

WhathadI just said?

Her already frazzled brain officially short–circuited.

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That laugh made Tessa’s scalp tingle: it felt like he was hiding something dark beneath the

amusement.

Back on Killis Island, Derrick had tortured Bernie to the point where he could neither live nor die and had finally returned him to his brother, Bert.

Over the years, after the fall of the Tom family, Sebastian had thought Derrick couldn’t possibly get any crueler.

But Bernie…

Had proven him wrong.

Because Bernie had dared to have disgusting thoughts about Stella, Derrick had almost ended

him.

And all because Bert had begged for mercy.

On the private airplane on the way back to Pagina, Sebastian still lay on a bed. His leg had been saved, but the pain was unbearable.

Derrick was on the phone, his voice icy. “Yes. Proceed as planned.”

Sebastian jumped at the word “planned.”

A plan?

Against Stella?

There was onlyoneperson Derrick would go that far for, andithad to be her.

When Derrick hung up. Sebastian asked. “You still have plans for that little firecracker?”

Derrick gave him a cold sideways glance.

Sebastian swallowed hard. “Abraham is already with her. All those years of feelings finally paid

off.

“Do you remember why she started liking him in the first place?” Derrick asked.

Sebastianwasstunned.

His heart tensed.

Of course,I knew whyStellahad begun to see Abraham that way.

But did it matter now?

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