The True Heiress's Return

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Shakira rubbed her eyes a few times, making sure she hadn't seen it wrong. She thought, 'So, Walter has really lost his mind!"

Apparently, her sharp scream had reached the study, as Walter sent her a voice message: [Look under the pillow.]

Puzzled, Shakira reached under it and pulled out a check. The amount on it was three million dollars.

Shakira gasped, too shocked to even scream.

Another voice message from Walter came through. "The app has a transfer limit. Happy New Year."

Shakira knew he had a nice voice, but this time, it was downright melodic.

She didn't hesitate and cheerfully accepted it, sending him a few playful "Thank you, boss!" emojis.

Just as she was basking in the joy, a message from Skyla popped up.

Skyla, as wealthy as her nephew, transferred 3,333,333 dollars to Shakira.

A voice message quickly followed. "Shakira, Walter told me you spent all your savings on the necklace for me. This is a New Year's gift from me. Accept it, alright?"

Shakira couldn't bring herself to accept it, so she began thinking of a polite way to refuse. But Skyla's next voice message shattered that plan.

[This isn't just from me; it's also from Walter's grandparents and parents. If you don't take it, I won't have a happy New Year.]

Shakira knew if she didn't accept, it would genuinely hurt Skyla's feelings.

So she took the money, thanked Skyla, and started to think about what gift she should prepare in return.

If someone treated her poorly, she would make them suffer.

But for those who were kind to her, she would repay them doubly.

In the days that followed, Shakira's phone buzzed more than ever with messages of New Year's greetings.

Matthew, Ethan, Sean, Gideon, Kyle, Calton, Gavin, Benji, Kevin and Michael all sent her New Year's greetings and gifts.

lunch, Levi slipped a box into her

received so many gifts or

understood how a

hadn't even felt such care and warmth

once thought she was

wasn't her who was undeserving but those

wrong.

Joe also sent her a holiday gift, but Shakira deleted and blocked him. It was

to the villa, and even Brian and Levi joined them at the table. They enjoyed the barbecue and watched a movie projected

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nightfall. From the dining room's floor-to-ceiling windows, Shakira and the others could see bursts of brilliant fireworks filling the sky, offering

cola, Shakira felt a warmth in her heart, squinting her eyes

"Pace yourself with

tongue.

put down her drink, her phone buzzed with a message-it was a

a few words, and shortly after, Xanthe sent her a

opened it,

[Grateful to have family who love me and whom I love.] Xanthe scoffed: [Ugh! Family? She's totally

smiled without

so there was no way he would

watching that fraud show off to everyone, with all the classmates fawning over her

few photos of cash piles, and asked Shakira, [Think

glanced at it. [Not quite. It doesn't look like as

it! Only my parents and a few close relatives give me gifts. The Nelson family has more people. Even if a few of mine are generous, she's still got the

gift in return. He owned such a large company, but he was so cheap. Shakira thought for a

gifts too, but she couldn't share those publicly.

began bombarding Shakira with

turned out to

audio; she could imagine

[Oh my gosh! I've never seen a transfer

is incredible! 3,333,333 dollars? She must

Skyla adored

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