The True Heiress's Return

Chapter 267

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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.

her hand, and inside

lives, Shakira had never received so many gifts or

a cherished child

past life, she hadn't even felt

thought she was

was undeserving

wrong.

gift, but Shakira deleted and blocked him.

and even Brian and Levi joined them at the table.

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was a designated area for fireworks, and they had been going off nonstop since nightfall. From the dining room's floor-to-ceiling windows, Shakira and the others could see bursts of brilliant fireworks filling the sky, offering a spectacular

Shakira felt a warmth

"Pace yourself with the

her tongue. "I know,

drink, her phone buzzed

and shortly after, Xanthe sent her a

opened it,

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

smiled without

was no way he would give her any of the valuable gifts

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

scrape together a few photos of

it. [Not quite. It doesn't look like

me gifts. The Nelson family has more people. Even if a few

man she'd been flirting with, and he hadn't even bothered with a gift in

gifts too, but she couldn't share those publicly. Xanthe went quiet for five

began bombarding

them to text, which turned

didn't play the audio; she could

never seen a transfer that large

3,333,333 dollars? She must

chuckled. Skyla

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