The True Heiress Reclaims Her Crown
The day my brother, Chester Rodney, came to the orphanage to take me home, my boyfriend Dominic Huxley looked at me coldly and said, "If you choose to acknowledge your birth family, we're over."
I knew he had his pride—he could never accept the difference in our social standing.
So, for him, I turned my back on the family I had yearned for my whole life.
In the decades that followed, I toiled without complaint, saving every cent to help him rise to success.
By the time I was not yet fifty, overwork had worn me down. Lying on my deathbed, my breathing shallow and weak, I watched Dominic on television. He was now an acclaimed scientist, just awarded the nation's highest research honor.
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