The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 587

Citrine pulled every document from the folder, scanning each one carefully.

Inside, she found the C. Corp equity transfer agreement-eighty percent of the company. If her guess was right, Hilda had just handed over every last share she owned.

Everyone in Crestwood's elite circles knew Hilda's reputation: a powerhouse, the only female CEO in town wielding real authority. She was relentless at work, the kind who put the company's interests above all else.

For someone that ambitious and capable, wasn't C. Corp the most important thing in her life? It was her life's work-her pride, her blood, sweat, and tears.

So why would she just give it all away? Citrine couldn't make sense of it.

Her gaze lingered on the bold letters of C. Corp at the top of the transfer agreement, her mind wandering.

"For me...?"

Could it really mean what she thought?

She was about to slip the agreement back into the folder when she noticed another stack of papers tucked inside.

beachfront villas, plots of land on luxury

the

no strings attached. Wasn't she afraid Citrine might just walk

it was because she'd been burned too many times in her previous life- taken too many falls that Citrine now found it impossible to trust

could give her any sense of security. Those things were

deep down, she could never

into hospitals and organizations that deliberately delayed flu

set up a slew of pharmaceutical factories on the side, churning out counterfeit versions of the very real medications developed by their research center. When the center's staff

dozen of these shady factories, and even

staggering. In fact, their

at the top of the sates charts on

birthday, Citrine returned to the research center, where investigators brought her up to

hearing the details,

off people's pain without

conscience.