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-"

just that desperate to squeeze money out

sharp ache

at her, she would say things

was the true heiress

and brought home, she was

the Vaughan Group's founder, gave

same hospital, a nurse named Carla was also giving

was born with a congenital

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

nurse, she secretly switched her own daughter

destinies of

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

until three years ago, after Pearl was in a car accident and a DNA test revealed the truth, that the secret finally came to

was shaken

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

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