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The Real Heiress Says Yes, but the Fake Heiress Gets Nowhere
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I have a bad habit. I always say I’ll do something, but whether I actually follow through is another story. When I was eight, my adoptive father stole an e-bike and told me to keep watch. I patted my chest confidently. “Don’t worry. If anyone comes, I’ll tell you!” Then I squatted by the curb and got distracted watching a trail of ants. Twenty minutes later, my adoptive father was hauled away in a police car, along with the stolen battery. Later, I was kidnapped. The trafficker told me to sit still and keep quiet. I nodded eagerly. “Okay, sir!” Then I rolled down the window and waved at everyone outside. “Hi! My uncle told me not to make any noise!” By the time we’d driven three blocks, the police had received more than a dozen calls. As the officers dragged him out of the car, the trafficker broke down. “I’ve been doing this for ten years, and I’ve never had a job go this horribly wrong!” That was how my DNA ended up in a database for missing and trafficked children. Four years later, my wealthy biological parents found me. On my first day in their mansion, the girl who had taken my place came to me holding a bracelet. “Nina, this bracelet has been in the Bennett family for generations. You’re their biological daughter, so it rightfully belongs to you.” I agreed without hesitation. “Sure. I’ll take it!” Then she ran crying into Mom’s arms and claimed I’d stolen the bracelet Grandma had left her. My brother flew into a rage and kicked open my bedroom door. “Nina Bennett! How dare you steal Fiona’s bracelet and humiliate her?” I looked up at him in confusion. “What bracelet?” “Don’t play dumb!” He was about to have my room searched when the butler rushed in. “Mrs. Bennett, this bracelet has been sitting in the foyer the whole time. One of the housekeepers nearly put it away with the costume jewelry.”
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“Yes?”“Do you think you’ll ever call me Dad again?”Nina looked at him.For a long time.“I heard you,” she said.Exactly the same as before.She didn’t say, “Okay.”She didn’t say no, either....Two years later, Nina opened her own company.It was a nonprofit auditing firm with twelve employees and a modest office.They specialized in performing financial checkups for small and midsize nonprofits.Whenever people asked why she’d chosen that line of work, she answered, “I’m used to documenting everything. I figured I should put the habit to good use.”A note was taped above her desk.'DOCUMENT EVERYTHING.'At first, her coworkers thought she was strange.She photographed every document, recorded every handoff, and kept two backups of every financial record.Then they uncovered a major accounting discrepancy for their first client.When the client asked how she’d found it, Nina pointed at the thousands of screenshots organized by date on her computer.“I looked.”T
The Real Heiress Says Yes, but the Fake Heiress Gets Nowhere Chapter 7
The verdict came quickly.Nina was eating hot pot alone in the guest room when the news broke. She’d already ordered three plates of beef.Her phone wouldn’t stop buzzing.'Fiona Bennett sentenced to fifteen years on multiple counts of fraud and attempted murder.''Adopted heiress embezzles millions in charitable donations while biological daughter is brutally attacked by her own family.''#BennettFamilyAbusedBiologicalDaughter trends with more than three million views.'Nina glanced at the notifications, picked up a slice of beef tripe, and swished it through the broth for exactly fifteen seconds.Then she coated it in sesame sauce and popped it into her mouth.Delicious.Things downstairs weren’t going nearly as well.Dad’s phone hadn’t stopped ringing since morning.Business partners.Banks.Board members.Every call meant the same thing.“Mr. Bennett, we need to reevaluate our relationship.”In plain English, they were bailing.The Bennett family business lost near
The Real Heiress Says Yes, but the Fake Heiress Gets Nowhere Chapter 6
After Fiona’s phone was seized under warrant, the digital forensics team spent two days extracting everything on it.When the results came back, the head of the financial crimes unit studied the report for a long time before closing it.“She’s only eighteen?”There were six burner accounts on the phone.Each one had profiles on different social media platforms.The same week Nina returned to the Bennett family, those accounts had begun posting nonstop.'I heard the Bennetts’ biological daughter was raised by a man who stole e-bikes.''What kind of manners could someone from a family like that possibly have?''Fiona is the only real Bennett heiress. Too bad good people always finish last.'Dozens of posts.Hundreds of comments.More than ten thousand shares.Fiona had orchestrated all of it herself.The voice recordings were even worse.One of her calls with the foundation’s accountant had been saved in her voice memos. She’d apparently forgotten to delete it.“Use the te
The Real Heiress Says Yes, but the Fake Heiress Gets Nowhere Chapter 5
The video began to play, and everyone in the living room held their breath.The image quality wasn’t great, but what happened was unmistakable.Fiona walked alone into another room inside the unfinished building.No one followed her.No one shoved her.No one grabbed her by the throat.She pulled a thick rope from her purse, wrapped it around her wrists several times, and pulled until bruises appeared.Then she repeatedly checked the marks on her neck using her phone’s front-facing camera.When they didn’t look convincing enough, she added another.Nina hadn’t even been inside the building at the time.Another camera showed her climbing out through the unfinished balcony ten minutes earlier.She stumbled when she landed, then regained her balance and waved cheerfully at the camera.Ethan’s face slowly drained of color.He looked down at his right hand.Five minutes ago, that hand had slapped Nina hard enough to knock her to the floor. It had grabbed her hair and forced he
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