LOGINThe night before our exam scores came out, the fake heiress said it to my face, in front of everyone. "Claire, I hear you're supposed to be some kind of star student. Why don't we compare?" What she didn't know was that I'd known for a long time she was bound to a score-transfer system. In my last life, she set the terms of the bet and had our scores read out in front of that whole room. I became the joke of the city, and the mob online finished me off. "Let's compete fairly. Only the best of us deserves the Bennett name." "When you lose, you give up climbing for good — and I might still find you work as a cleaner." I frowned and waved her off. She only pushed harder. "Unless the scores were fake. Guilty conscience? Afraid to find out?" "Either you take the bet, or you go public and admit you're a fraud." "On your knees in front of all these people, apologizing until I'm satisfied, and then you get as far away from here as you can." I sighed. "And if you lose?" She made a small contemptuous sound. "If I lose, the same terms. I'll never set foot in the Bennett house again." Inside, I smiled. As you wish.
View MoreA few days later, Bennett Group held a press conference.Lily appeared in front of the cameras, worn thin, all the life gone out of her face.She took the microphone out of a reporter's hand slowly, and said it one word at a time."I'm sorry. I'm the person at the center of the dispute over the Bennett succession."I saw that I looked something like the family's real daughter, and I let myself think I could get away with it. I wanted the inheritance."I've taken up the public's attention, and I'll accept whatever criticism comes."As expected, the hostile coverage owned every trending list that night.Exactly as it went the first time, the public settled on the impostor as a shameless climber, and the rumors and the abuse were out of control within hours.Only this time, the one at the center of it was Lily.By my count, she should have been out of the Bennett house by then.Maybe that damp basement would make her a nice new home....Not long after, Richard and Diane turne
People around us started talking."Claire doesn't need the Bennett name now. Seven hundred and fifty million makes her her own dynasty.""And in cash. If Bennett Group actually pays that out, they're bankrupt by tomorrow.""Richard, stop trying to get something for nothing. Go and ask the girl nicely while you still can."Richard stood with the appointment papers held out in midair, his expression cycling through everything but a decision.The second Lily saw I'd turned down the succession, she was at his side."Dad, if Claire doesn't want it, you still have me."That's seven hundred and fifty million. Are you going to stand there and watch it kill me?"Give me one more chance. One. I swear I won't put a foot wrong again."Watching Lily grovel was more satisfying than I can put into words.On her own ability, if she'd simply sat the exam honestly, a place at a good school was hers for the taking. Instead she spent everything she had looking for a shortcut, calculating and cal
Lily's whole face lifted.She held the phone over her head and put it on speaker."Claire, I told you the scores were rigged."Tampering with exam records is a criminal offense. You can spend the rest of your life explaining it from a cell."Then Ms. Whitaker's voice came through the speaker like a thunderclap."The board says your elective sheet was blank. Your name and your exam ID number, and nothing else."The volume was high enough that the whole lobby heard it."God. Somebody really did hand in a blank sheet.""The heir to Bennett Group turning in a blank paper to win a family argument? That'll be everywhere by tonight."Every eye in the room went to Lily.She didn't know whether to lower the phone or keep holding it up. Her face ran through half a dozen expressions.Ms. Whitaker was still going, and the lobby heard all of it."Lily, I have to say it. If you'd simply answered the questions at your usual level, you'd have gotten into a perfectly respectable four-year s
Lily went blank. Then it reached her.At the same moment, Richard's voice went off beside her like a thunderclap."You little fool! You handed in a blank sheet?"Lily came back to herself, shoved through the crowd in three strides, and stared at the screen.In front of the flashing zero was her own name."That's not possible! How could she score a zero?"She whipped around to me, shock all over her face."Claire — did you know from the start that I'd be taking your scores at the exam?"I gave her a small nod that answered nothing.The shock in her eyes went deeper. Then she caught herself."So what? We weren't only betting section by section."My total is 353. Yours is 207. You're a hundred and forty-six points behind. What are you going to make that up with?"I made a face and walked over to the monitor.The moment the last score opened, the color went out of Lily's face."173! Claire got a 173!""No wonder she kept betting. She had the kill shot the whole time.""She












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