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.

her

had never received so many gifts or experienced this kind

how a cherished child

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

was not

realized that it wasn't her who was undeserving but

wrong.

Joe also sent her a holiday gift, but Shakira deleted and blocked him. It was New Year, and she

returned to the villa, and even Brian and Levi joined them at the

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they had been going off nonstop since nightfall. From the dining room's floor-to-ceiling windows, Shakira

barbecue and sipping ice-cold cola, Shakira felt a warmth in her heart,

patted her hand. "Pace yourself with

stuck out her tongue.

buzzed with a message-it was

replied with a few words, and shortly

it, raising

from Yvette, 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 hers and acting so smug! Why

smiled without saying

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

to everyone, with all the classmates fawning over her in

scrape together a few photos of cash piles, and asked Shakira, [Think this will

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

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

Xanthe even more 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 cheap.

gifts too, but she couldn't

she began bombarding Shakira with

to text, which turned out

audio; she could imagine

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

aunt is incredible! 3,333,333 dollars?

Skyla

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