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-"

laugh. "Kidnapped? That's the best excuse you can come up with? Are you just that desperate to

sharp ache twisted in Isadora's

time Eleanor was angry at her, she would say things like

the true heiress of the

and brought home, she

elegant wife of the Vaughan

named Carla

born with a

she couldn't afford the care her baby needed. Fearing for her daughter's future, Carla

secretly switched her own daughter with Eleanor's

destinies of

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

in a car accident and a DNA test revealed the truth, that

Vaughan family was shaken to

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

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