The Phantom Heiress Rising From The Shadows

Chapter 878:

“Cut the act,” Brenna said sharply. “The second you kicked me out of the family, I stopped being your daughter. I’m part of the Harper family now.” She looked him directly in the eye. “Isabella is your daughter. I heard she’s gotten rich these days.”

She knew Alec’s sudden friendliness wasn’t a good thing. He clearly had ulterior motives.

Alec carried a faint smile, wearing an expression that seemed worlds apart from his old, arrogant self.

Once, he had believed that turning an obscure factory into a public company proved his brilliance. Refusing to accept that he had fallen from the upper crust to society’s lowest rungs, he continued to talk down to others with the same arrogance he had wielded as CEO of Barrett Group after the company went bankrupt. However, the elites now barely acknowledged him, viewing him as if he were a beggar.

He couldn’t accept this dramatic shift in his status and felt the world owed him something. Every time he looked for work, he aimed straight for executive positions, asking for millions in annual salary right off the bat. Of course, the only thing he collected was rejection.

“At your age, you’d even have trouble landing a security job. Maybe

stinging more than before. Only then did Alec feel the full weight of

of each day, but at least his earnings kept the household afloat. He had been doing this for a month, and during this time, his passengers ranged from polished executives to exhausted office workers. Sometimes, he even picked up rural patients

a sense of acceptance began to settle over him. He no

again, Alec realized what she must have

know I did wrong. I refused to let you go to school and confined you just to make you design for the Barrett Group. Everything was my fault. I

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frozen, taken aback. Never had she

monster,” Brenna said, feeling old pain stir within her, especially the memory of being used as the family’s cash cow ever since the adoption. No one in the Barrett family had ever