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.

box into her hand,

had never received so many

understood how a

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

she was not deserving of

it wasn't her who was

wrong.

Shakira deleted and blocked him. It was New Year, and

and Levi joined them at the table. They enjoyed the barbecue

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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

felt a warmth in her

"Pace yourself with the

tongue. "I know, I

drink, her phone buzzed with a message-it

words, and

opened it,

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 hers and acting so smug! Why doesn't she show off what her birth

smiled

he would give her any of the valuable

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

a few photos of cash

[Not quite. It doesn't

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

greeting to the man she'd been flirting with, and he hadn't even bothered with a gift in return. He

but she couldn't

began bombarding Shakira

which turned out to

she didn't play the audio; she could

seen a transfer that large in my

is incredible! 3,333,333 dollars? She

chuckled. Skyla

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