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-"

come up 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

familiar, sharp ache twisted in Isadora's

at her, she would say things

was the true heiress of

home, she

the

the same hospital, a nurse named Carla was also

with

saddled with a gambler husband, Jasper Lowry-knew she couldn't afford the care

position as a nurse, she secretly switched her own daughter with Eleanor's

that moment, the destinies of Isadora

showered Pearl with affection-her very name meaning "precious jewel❞—Carla raised Isadora with cold

car accident and

family was shaken to

the daughter they had cherished for twenty years- Pearl-even after

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