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

never received so many gifts or experienced this kind

understood how a cherished child celebrates New

even felt such

she was not deserving

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

wrong.

gift, but Shakira deleted and blocked him. It was New

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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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

and sipping ice-cold cola, Shakira felt a warmth

her hand. "Pace yourself with the

stuck out her tongue. "I

drink, her phone buzzed with a message-it was

a few words, and shortly after, Xanthe

opened it, raising

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

just smiled without

way he

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

photos of cash piles, and asked Shakira, [Think this will put

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

give me gifts. The Nelson family has more people. Even if a few of mine are generous, she's still got the numbers on her

with, and he hadn't even bothered with a gift in return. He owned such a large company, but he was so cheap. Shakira thought for a moment and then shared the transfers from Walter and Skyla with

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

bombarding Shakira with voice

which turned out to be just

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

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

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

chuckled. Skyla adored

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