The Phantom Heiress Rising From The Shadows

Chapter 1394:

Their eyes met, brimming with mutual resentment, locked in a silent clash. “Keira, you took a hundred million dollars and swore never to bother us again,” Giselle said sharply.

She sized up Keira, noting her modest blue knit dress, likely costing a few thousand dollars, and inexpensive shoes, perhaps about eight thousand. Her handbag, slightly worn, might have been worth about thirty thousand but showed years of use.

None of her attire was from recent collections, leading Giselle to suspect Keira had burned through her fortune and returned to demand more.

And her daughter… who could say if she wasn’t someone Keira had paid to play the part?

Seeing Keira in person dispelled the worst scenarios Giselle had imagined on the drive, and she began to regain her composure.

unruffled by Giselle’s anger or the gathering security guards. Glancing at her watch, she calculated that Shepard would

me. Did you ever consider my daughter’s right to inheritance? I hear your long-lost daughter inherited a hefty share of the Harper fortune.

Shepard off the hook. If he actually decided to keep the mother and daughter

phone for the umpteenth time, Keira wondered why Shepard hadn’t returned yet. He was supposed to be back by now, since he was only three

waited in

Shepard’s return, there was no way she could demand the money she needed. And how could she guarantee her daughter would be recognized

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believe she’d ever manage to push Giselle into letting her

heart leaped

last, someone

thought that