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.

into her hand, and inside were small gold

Shakira had never received so many gifts or experienced

finally understood how a cherished child celebrates New

her past life, she hadn't even felt such care and warmth from

she was not

that it wasn't her who was undeserving but those foolish people who couldn't

wrong.

and blocked him. It was New Year, and

joined them at the table. They enjoyed the

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the dining room's floor-to-ceiling windows, Shakira

sipping ice-cold cola, Shakira felt a warmth in her heart, squinting her eyes in

gently patted her hand. "Pace yourself with the cola;

out her tongue.

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

few words, and shortly after, Xanthe sent her a

opened it,

along with an extravagant New Year's feast. Her caption read: [Grateful to have family who love me and whom I love.] Xanthe scoffed: [Ugh! Family? She's totally shameless, taking what's not hers and acting so smug! Why doesn't she show off what her birth parents

smiled

for money, so there was no way he would give her any of the valuable gifts

fraud show off to everyone, with all the classmates

then dug through her phone, managing to scrape together a few photos of cash piles, and asked

at it. [Not quite. It doesn't

family has more people. Even if a few

she'd sent a New Year's greeting to the man she'd been flirting with, and he hadn't even bothered with a gift in return. He owned such a large company, but he was so cheap. Shakira

her expensive gifts too, but she couldn't share those

bombarding

them to text, which turned

thing she didn't play the audio; she could imagine Xanthe

[Oh my gosh! I've never seen a transfer that large in my entire

Lopez's aunt is incredible! 3,333,333 dollars?

Skyla

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