The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 6 Cut Off Her Money? No Problem—She’s Got a Black Card!

Tessa watched as Stella’s phone screen lit up, went dark, and then lit up again.

In short, it just wouldn’t stop ringing.

Tessa couldn’t help but suggest, “Why don’t you just turn it off?”

Blocking the calls wasn’t working anymore—all the incoming numbers were unfamiliar. No need to guess who was behind it. Madam Susan must have been borrowing the housemaids’ phones to keep calling.

Stella took the advice and shut off her phone.

But Susan’s punishment came swiftly.

When it was time to pay for their meal, Stella turned her phone back on to scan the payment code, only to receive a notification: “Your bank card has been deactivated. Please choose another payment method.”

The card linked to her phone was one Susan had insisted on binding to her account shortly after Stella had returned to the Reed family years ago.

Now, it was completely useless.

Tessa glanced at her screen. “What the hell is this?”

“They froze my card,” Stella replied.

Tessa’s lips twitched. “Because of Lillian? What kind of family treats their own daughter like this?”

Hearing that the Reed family had outright cut off Stella’s credit card, Tessa felt sick, like she’d swallowed a fly.

How could people like this exist? They were treating their own daughter worse than an adopted one.

Stella just smiled, unfazed. “It’s not the first time.”

Tessa scoffed. “I got it.” She pulled out her phone and paid.

into the car, Tessa said, “I’m wiring you

a little spending money? Who

Stella felt a rare flicker of warmth.

don’t even have a job—where the hell is the money supposed to come from? Those Reed

could feel a blood vessel

really do have money. It’s… a

was complicated, to say the

have spent the last two years by Ethan’s side, but that didn’t mean she was dependent on him or the

off. “Fine, you have money. But

woman who’d spent two years revolving around a man, living off the Reed family—what money could she possibly

simply didn’t believe

don’t need it,” Stella

her eyes.

at it, she just couldn’t

dragged Tessa into a shopping mall and spent tens of thousands in

Tessa finally believed her.

Stella had used, her eyes practically sparkled. “Where did you get this? Who gave it to you?

she could think of was that Ethan had given Stella the

at the card in her

storm of emotions flickered through her

“Ethan? Not a chance.”

way Ethan would

frowned. “Then

couldn’t have

did you know

owner. Her gaze

grabbed her bags and walked out of the

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