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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 were

Shakira had never received so many gifts or experienced

how a cherished child celebrates New

past life, she hadn't even felt such

was not deserving of

she finally realized that it wasn't her who was undeserving but those foolish people who couldn't tell right

wrong.

course, Joe also sent her a holiday gift, but Shakira deleted and blocked him. It was New Year, and she didn't

joined them at the table. They enjoyed the barbecue and

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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

Shakira felt a warmth in her heart,

hand. "Pace

stuck out her tongue. "I know,

down her drink, her phone buzzed with

words, and shortly after, Xanthe

it, raising

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

just smiled

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

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

managing to scrape together a few photos of cash piles,

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

close relatives give me gifts. The Nelson family has more people. Even if a

been flirting with, and he hadn't even bothered with a gift in return. He owned such a large company, but he

expensive gifts too, but she couldn't share those publicly.

bombarding

converted them to text, which turned out

thing she didn't play the audio; she

continued [Oh my gosh! I've never seen a transfer that large

incredible! 3,333,333 dollars?

Skyla adored

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