The Double ( or More ?) Life of The Fake Heiress

Chapter 46

Mirabella had barely stepped into the living room when Delilah, who was busy organizing boxes, looked up and almost jumped out of her skin. The ledger she was holding clattered onto the floor.

“Mira… what brings you back so soon? Weren’t you supposed to visit Mrs. Catherine?” Delilah asked, her face a picture of surprise. Quickly, she bent down to retrieve the ledger and tossed it back into the box without a second thought.

Beside her. Shawn, calculator in one hand and spectacles perched on his nose, set down his device. He glanced at his wristwatch before asking with mild confusion, “Honey, you haven’t been gone for more than a few hours. Did you forget something?”

Mirabella cast a nonchalant glance at the box by Delilah’s feet and replied casually, “She had company, so I came back.”

“Oh, I see…” Delilah said, the matter seemingly settled in her mind.

After a brief pause, she continued without much thought, “You haven’t eaten yet, have you? Your dad and I thought you wouldn’t be back for lunch, so we haven’t prepared anything. Just give me a moment to put these away, and I’ll start on some food.”

Delilah quickly tossed a few more ledgers onto the coffee table into the box, and Shawn’s calculator followed suit. “Shawn, can you take this stuff back to the room? I’ll

off his glasses and hoisting the

into the kitchen, lending a hand with the vegetables. She then

ask all of a sudden?” she replied, wondering if Mirabella had sensed

a couple of extra clean pairs of shoes by the shoe cabinet,” Mirabella said, her downcast, her voice

a moment before laughing it off, “I was tidying up the shoe cabinet this morning and got distracted

then seemed to remember something else. “Oh, and Mom, I ran into

debt collectors you hear about, you know? We don’t have any debts, do we?”

of guilt under her daughter’s scrutiny, Delilah quickly shook her head. “No, we don’t owe anyone anything!” But after a few seconds, she probed, “Were those men

they didn’t seem like good news,” Mirabella stated plainly.

this, Delilah’s throat tightened around the words. ‘They’re just from the company’s