The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 452

Aline looked absolutely stricken, her face pale with anger as she shouted at Citrine, "You want us to confess? How is that any different from having those videos leaked to the public?"

Dick chimed in, his voice tight with frustration. "Exactly! Are you just messing with us?"

Citrine just shrugged, completely unfazed. "Honestly? There's no real difference. Either way, your reputations are finished."

She paused, putting on a mock-serious tone. "Well, if there's any consolation, at least you won't have to worry about those videos being traded around online. At least there's a shred of dignity left."

Aline exploded. "You... you're a monster!" What was this nonsense supposed to mean?

Citrine didn't even blink at the insult. Instead, she feigned disappointment. "If you're not willing, then forget it."

She moved to hang up.

That sent both Dick and Aline into a panic, but especially Aline. If those photos and videos got out, her daughter's true identity would be exposed for the world to see, and any shred of respectability for her and her daughter would be destroyed.

Desperate, Aline snatched the phone and yelled, "Wait! Fine, I'll do it!"

Then, almost pleading, she added, "But you have to promise the photos and videos will never show up online."

Citrine couldn't help but

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of those files.

Citrine hung

the call ended, she broke into a grin. "Idiots. Both of

back home, their argument growing more heated

was firm,

"We can't

us to confess

top of that,

us to 'donate' two and a half billion dollars to

tone vicious as she snapped at him, "Don't be so selfish, Dick! If those videos get out, our daughter and are finished. Who

lunatic. If he finds out the daughter he's raised all these years isn't really his,

on pretending I'm just her stepfather? You have no idea how humiliating it is, hearing those vultures out

Aline's biological daughter, and nothing in the world mattered more to her. She shot Dick a cold glare, her voice steely.

most natural thing in the world, she added, "And when this is all over, you'll find a way to make your brother get rid of

the end, Dick caved-for his