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The Vampire Heiress She Pretended to Be

The Vampire Heiress She Pretended to Be

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Por:  VelvetCompletado
Idioma: English
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Sinopsis

Reborn

Feel-Good Story

Plot Twists

Vampire

In my first life, my younger sister was adopted by House Ashcroft, Greyhaven’s most powerful pureblood vampire family. She expected wealth, status, and a perfect life. Instead, she received cold adoptive parents and an heir named Lucian who treated her like an intruder. Years later, the Ashcrofts stripped her of their name and inheritance and cast her out with nothing. I went home with the Millers, two cleaners at Night Academy who appeared warm and loving. Despite our poverty, I survived everything that family put me through—and Lucian eventually fell in love with me. Everyone called my life a Cinderella story. My sister believed that ending should have belonged to her. Three days after my blood-bonding ceremony, she rammed my car off an overpass and left me trapped beneath the rising sun. Then we both returned to the day of our adoption. This time, she threw herself into Mrs. Miller’s arms. “Your Cinderella story belongs to me now.” She began recreating every hardship I had endured and performing every quality Lucian had once loved in me. Soon, he was falling for her exactly as she planned. But my sister never understood the truth. What saved me in my first life was never the family I chose or the man who loved me. It was my ability to survive any life I was given.

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Chapter 1

My sister and I were reborn on the day we were adopted from the Greyhaven Home for Young Vampires.

Two families stood inside the director’s office: the Ashcrofts and the Millers.

The Ashcrofts were the most powerful pureblood family in Greyhaven. They controlled most of the city’s blood products, night real estate, and private hospitals.

Mr. Ashcroft was not only the head of the family. His companies paid enough taxes to influence the entire city’s finances.

Mrs. Ashcroft was one of the best-known socialites in vampire high society.

As for their only son, Lucian, he was the sole heir to House Ashcroft.

Everyone in Greyhaven assumed that he would one day become its lord.

Beside them, the Millers looked especially shabby.

According to the director, they were low-ranking vampires employed by Night Academy. Mr. Miller repaired the school buildings and patrolled the grounds at night, while his wife worked as a cleaner.

In our previous life, Sylvia had chosen the Ashcrofts without hesitation.

She had always been prettier and more ambitious than the other children in the orphanage. She believed that with her beauty and intelligence, entering House Ashcroft would guarantee her the finest life imaginable.

This time, she refused to spare the three purebloods another glance.

As though terrified I might reach them first, she threw herself into Mrs. Miller’s arms and held on tightly.

“Mom, please take me home! I want to be your daughter. From today on, my name is Sylvia Miller!”

The Millers had clearly not expected such enthusiasm.

They stared at her for a moment before their faces lit up. Mrs. Miller gathered Sylvia into her arms and stroked her long, soft hair again and again.

As my sister spoke excitedly, I walked toward the Ashcrofts.

Lucian lowered his eyes and studied me with cool disdain. There was no welcome in his gaze, only open suspicion and disgust.

It was exactly how he had looked at Sylvia when they first met in our previous life.

I neither avoided his gaze nor attempted to win his favor.

I calmly took my place in front of Mr. and Mrs. Ashcroft.

Our choices were made, and the two families took us home.

As we left the orphanage, I heard the director murmuring behind us.

“How strange. Sylvia has always been so competitive. Whenever prospective parents arrived in ordinary clothes, she wouldn’t even agree to meet them. Now that a genuine pureblood family has come for her, why would she turn them down?”

The director could not understand my sister’s choice.

I understood it perfectly.
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13 Capítulos
Chapter 1
My sister and I were reborn on the day we were adopted from the Greyhaven Home for Young Vampires.Two families stood inside the director’s office: the Ashcrofts and the Millers.The Ashcrofts were the most powerful pureblood family in Greyhaven. They controlled most of the city’s blood products, night real estate, and private hospitals.Mr. Ashcroft was not only the head of the family. His companies paid enough taxes to influence the entire city’s finances.Mrs. Ashcroft was one of the best-known socialites in vampire high society.As for their only son, Lucian, he was the sole heir to House Ashcroft.Everyone in Greyhaven assumed that he would one day become its lord.Beside them, the Millers looked especially shabby.According to the director, they were low-ranking vampires employed by Night Academy. Mr. Miller repaired the school buildings and patrolled the grounds at night, while his wife worked as a cleaner.In our previous life, Sylvia had chosen the Ashcrofts without hesitation
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Chapter 2
In our previous life, Sylvia had done everything she could to be chosen by the Ashcrofts.She became Sylvia Ashcroft and believed a pureblood lady’s life was waiting for her. There would be expensive gowns, limitless blood allowances, and a family name that every low-ranking vampire in Greyhaven envied.Better still, Lucian, the only heir to House Ashcroft, would become her adoptive brother.An ancient pureblood heir and an orphaned girl adopted into his family, living beneath the same roof until they crossed the boundaries of their positions and fell in love.It was one of the oldest stories in vampire romance novels.What Sylvia had not expected was that Lucian would show her none of the tenderness of an older brother.On the contrary, he had despised her from the moment they met.“I hate greedy hypocrites more than anything,” he told her. “Don’t think I can’t see through you. You chose the Ashcrofts at the orphanage because you wanted our bloodline, our status, and our money.”At th
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Chapter 3
Sylvia’s expectations were not entirely wrong.Lucian began bullying me even earlier than he had bullied her in our previous life.Inside a washroom at Night Academy, someone forced my head beneath the icy water filling a sink.Water flooded my nose as a group of boys laughed around me.Just before I suffocated, someone seized the back of my collar and hauled me upright.I coughed violently. My soaked hair clung to my face.Lucian stood in front of me, watching with an amused smile.“You want the Ashcrofts’ money? Fine.”He tilted his chin toward one of the stalls.“Drink the toilet dry. I’ll give you a hundred thousand dollars for every mouthful. How does that sound?”His friends immediately began cheering.“Go on, Miss Ashcroft. Isn’t money the reason you wanted into their family?”I looked up at Lucian.In our previous life, this man had held my hand during our bonding ceremony and gently promised that everything he possessed would belong to me.Now he poured all his cruelty onto me
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Chapter 4
After arranging our first tutoring session, I returned to Ashcroft Manor.The enormous house was empty.Mr. Ashcroft was attending a family council meeting. Mrs. Ashcroft had gone to a private beauty clinic for her monthly blood rejuvenation treatment.Lucian, meanwhile, was probably having dinner at the Millers’ home.In my previous life, his driver had taken me home one night and the Millers happened to see him at the door. They warmly invited him to stay for dinner.Now the same story was unfolding around Sylvia.Lucian was probably sitting at the Millers’ narrow dining table. Sylvia would be wearing a faded dress and quietly urging Mrs. Miller not to serve their last packet of high-quality fortified blood to a guest.The Millers would lovingly scold her for being too considerate. They would insist that because it was Lucian’s first visit, they could not possibly offer him anything less than their best.The food would be far less refined than anything served at Ashcroft Manor, but t
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Chapter 5
In the weeks that followed, Lucian’s cruelty continued to escalate.One evening, I opened the lunch prepared by the manor staff and found the box filled with silver tacks. Dead spiders appeared in my moisturizer and toothpaste. Someone burned black holes through the gowns in my wardrobe with cigarettes.Silver slowed a vampire’s healing.The first time I opened the lunch box, I was unprepared. A tack pierced my fingertip, and blood fell onto the table. The burning pain remained for hours.When I looked up, I met Lucian’s vicious smile.From several rows away, he silently mouthed, Tessa, you deserve it.He expected me to cry.Perhaps he also expected me to run to Mr. and Mrs. Ashcroft and complain. Then he could prove to everyone that I was exactly what he had always claimed: a calculating girl who used her position as their adopted daughter to demand attention.Instead, I put on gloves and emptied the silver tacks into the trash.When I found spiders in my skincare products, I asked a
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Chapter 6
The accusation spread faster than anyone expected.By the following afternoon, Night Academy’s largest conference room was packed.The principal, senior administrators, the newly appointed head of the Greyhaven Night Education Board, and representatives from both adoptive families sat at the front. Reporters crowded along the walls, broadcasting the investigation live across the city.What began as a dispute over a school performance had become a public scandal about pureblood privilege.Sylvia stood between Mr. and Mrs. Miller, wrapped in Lucian’s coat. Her eyes were red and swollen, while her adoptive parents held her protectively.Across the room, Mr. and Mrs. Ashcroft kept their distance from me.The principal asked Sylvia to explain what had happened.She lowered her head.“Tessa said girls like me belong behind the stage cleaning floors, not standing on it beside pureblood students.”The room erupted.“She reminded me that her family donated several buildings to the academy. She
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Chapter 7
The reporters assumed Mara had come to condemn me. Her worn uniform made her look like Sylvia's natural ally."Did Tessa bully Sylvia?" someone asked."No. I'm here for Tessa."Even I was surprised.We were not close in any ordinary sense. Mara tutored me for exactly one hour each day and left the instant it ended. She had returned most of my advance with a ledger accurate to the cent.I had helped her in another way, but never told her. After seeing the bites on her wrist, I hired an investigator to document her father's violence and coercive feeding. The evidence went to vampire child protection and the police. Mara and her grandmother were moved to a confidential apartment while her father was arrested.I had missed an evening class to arrange the final transfer. Mara, responsible for attendance, questioned me. Minutes later she learned her father had been detained. She marked no absence and only said, "Don't miss again."I thought she had accepted my poor excuse. Apparently, she ha
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Chapter 8
Lucian's malice became quieter. At dinner, he set down a bowl of hot blood broth hard enough to splash my face. A housekeeper hurried for ice. Mrs. Ashcroft continued eating. Her husband merely told Lucian not to behave so crudely in front of staff.I pressed the ice to my cheek and studied the people around the table. Sylvia had spent years begging these parents to love her. They barely raised their own son. Why would they love a girl selected by a seer?Affection had no purchasing power here. Value did."I received my national examination results," I said. "I ranked first."Three heads lifted."St. Aldwyn University has offered me admission to its business program. Several networks want to interview my parents about education. I would also like to intern in Ashcroft Group's investment division."Mr. Ashcroft needed two seconds to calculate the benefit. Then he smiled."Of course. We should celebrate."Mrs. Ashcroft placed an arm around me for the interview. The photographs showed a p
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Chapter 9
Ten minutes later, Lucian and a dozen boys blocked an empty corridor. The cameras had been damaged. One boy seized my hair and drove my head against the wall.Darkness burst behind my eyes. I kicked him between the legs, tore a bottle of blood wine from my bag, and smashed it against the railing. The jagged neck flashed in my hand."Come closer."Blood ran from my nose. I held Lucian's gaze."You had better kill me tonight. If I walk out with one breath left, I will drag you and House Ashcroft into hell."Nobody moved."Hypocrite," Lucian said. "You pretend to be generous while planning every step.""I truly helped Mara. Who have you helped, apart from the girl you want?"Sylvia hid near the far wall.I tapped the broken bottle against Lucian's collar."The reporters investigating school violence did not wander in by accident. I invited them. I knew Sylvia would complain after losing her place, and I preserved every log, receipt, and recording. Once they learned she lied, they started
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Chapter 10
Jewelry arrived at my university apartment. His driver waited after lectures. Desserts I had mentioned once appeared on my desk.I returned the jewelry, dismissed the car, and threw away the food.Lucian was not falling in love because Sylvia had missed a line in her performance. He was discovering that the qualities he desired had not transferred with our households. Sylvia could recreate the scenery of my old life, but not the self-possession that scenery had forced me to build.By then, he hardly mattered.I spent three years in Ashcroft Group's investment division. I learned how capital moved through Greyhaven, how executives disguised risk, and how old families protected themselves with charitable foundations.Mara entered St. Aldwyn to study computer science. She built a workforce management platform that could identify payroll fraud and unsafe staffing patterns. I secured a two-million-dollar seed investment from Ashcroft Group. Mara built the product. I found clients and negoti
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