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.

slipped a box into her

so many gifts or experienced this kind of

understood how a cherished child celebrates

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

thought she was

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

wrong.

deleted and blocked him. It

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

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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

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

"Pace yourself with the cola; it's

out her tongue.

put down her drink, her phone buzzed with a

and shortly after, Xanthe sent her a

it, raising an

showing off the holiday gifts she had received 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

smiled

he would give

fraud show off to everyone, with all the

then dug through her phone, managing to scrape together a few photos of cash piles, and asked Shakira, [Think this will put her in her

[Not quite. It doesn't look like as much as

parents and a few close relatives give me gifts. The Nelson family has more people. Even if a few of mine are generous,

was that 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

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

began bombarding Shakira with voice

to text, which turned out to be just

she didn't play the audio; she could

never seen a transfer

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

chuckled. Skyla

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