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-"
you can come up with? Are you just that desperate to squeeze
familiar, sharp ache twisted
Eleanor was angry at her, she
heiress
home, she was
elegant wife of the Vaughan Group's founder, gave birth in
same hospital, a nurse named Carla was also giving birth
with
the care her baby needed. Fearing for her daughter's future, Carla made a terrible,
as a nurse, she secretly switched her own daughter with
destinies of Isadora and Pearl were
name meaning "precious jewel❞—Carla raised Isadora with cold
after Pearl was in a car accident and a DNA test revealed the truth,
Vaughan family was shaken
daughter they had cherished for twenty years- Pearl-even after learning
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