Chapter 13
The next day, Isadora went to the nearby mall to replace her lost phone and get a new SIM card.
The moment she turned on her phone, a flood of messages came pouring in.
She barely had time to glance at them before her phone started ringing-Eleanor Vaughan was calling.
Eleanor was Isadora's biological mother, the matriarch of the Vaughan family.
Isadora froze for a split second before answering.
Eleanor's sharp, annoyed voice cut through the line.
"Isadora, what exactly have you been up to these past two days? You haven't answered any of my calls or texts. Am I even your mother in your eyes? Honestly, why can't you be as thoughtful as Pearl?"
Almost without thinking, Isadora replied, "I was kidnapped. That's why I lost my phone-"
with? Are you just that desperate to squeeze money out of the Vaughan family? You're exactly like your adoptive mother—unbelievable. Sometimes I can't even believe you're my own
familiar, sharp ache twisted in
at her,
true heiress of the Vaughan
brought home, she was
elegant wife of the Vaughan Group's founder, gave
same hospital, a nurse named Carla was also giving birth
born with
afford the care her baby needed. Fearing for
her position as a nurse, she secretly
destinies of Isadora and
Pearl with affection-her very name meaning "precious jewel❞—Carla raised Isadora with
a car accident and a DNA test revealed the truth, that the secret finally came to
was shaken
daughter they had cherished for twenty years- Pearl-even after learning the
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