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.”

box, and Shawn’s calculator followed suit. “Shawn, can

and

lending a hand with the vegetables. She then asked, as if it were an afterthought. “Did we have any visitors

do you ask all of a sudden?” she replied,

came in, I noticed a couple of extra clean pairs of shoes

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

acknowledgment, then seemed to remember something else. “Oh, and Mom, I ran into a group of men in

respond, when her daughter continued. “They looked quite intimidating. Kind of like those debt collectors you hear about, you know? We don’t have any debts, do we?” Mirabella’s

her daughter’s scrutiny, Delilah quickly shook her head. “No, we don’t owe anyone anything!” But after a

didn’t seem like good news,” Mirabella

this, Delilah’s throat tightened around the words. ‘They’re just from the company’s finance department, not debt collectors. She