I have a habit. I say yes to everything. Then I do the exact opposite.
When I was eight, my foster dad told me to keep watch while he stole from Walmart.
I nodded seriously.
Then I turned to a woman nearby and said proudly, “Ma’am! My dad’s in there doing a Mission: Impossible thing!”
Twenty minutes later, my foster dad was in handcuffs, and I was sent to a group home.
At fourteen, a staff member drove me away and told me to sit still and keep quiet.
I nodded obediently.
Then I rolled down the window and yelled at a passerby.
“My uncle told me not to talk, but I’m really hungry!”
He ended up in handcuffs too.
Four years later, a DNA match reunited me with the wealthy Aldrich family.
On my first day home, Mia, the adopted daughter, handed me an antique gold brooch.
“This belonged to Grandmother. It was always meant for you… the real Aldrich daughter.”
“Great. Thanks! I’ll keep it.”
Then she turned around and sobbed to Mom that I had stolen it from her.
My brother, Callum, kicked open my bedroom door minutes later.
“What gives you the right to take Mia’s brooch?”
I blinked at him. “What?”
“Don’t play dumb!”
He was about to search my room when Mr. Hayes, the estate manager, appeared in the doorway.
“Mr. Aldrich, the brooch left by the late Mrs. Aldrich is still on the table in the front hall. One of the maids nearly cleared it away.”
My Family Chose The Fake Heiress Then Begged For Me Back Chapter 09 Two years later. I opened my own firm. A nonprofit audit consultancy. Twelve people, one modest office. We do financial health checks for small and mid-size charities. People ask me why I chose this line of work. I tell them: “I’ve been
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My Family Chose The Fake Heiress Then Begged For Me Back Chapter 08 The sentencing came down: multiple counts, to be served consecutively. Mia was sentenced to over a decade in federal prison, with no possibility of parole for the first eight years. I was in the guest room eating pizza. Two large pies. Already
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My Family Chose The Fake Heiress Then Begged For Me Back Chapter 07 It came out later that Mia had set the next phase in motion two weeks before her arrest. Using a supplementary bank card Mom had given her years ago—linked to Mom’s account, not her own—she’d made three separate transfers totaling twenty thousand
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My Family Chose The Fake Heiress Then Begged For Me Back Chapter 06 The forensic team told Detective Reyes later that the break in the case was almost absurdly simple. The photos I’d taken on my first day—every page of the handover documents, photographed and uploaded—turned out to be the original, pre-tampering data. Investigators compared
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My Family Chose The Fake Heiress Then Begged For Me Back Chapter 05 The video quality wasn’t great—grainy, washed-out, the way construction site cameras always are. The footage was grainy, but clear enough. Mia walked into a different room in the same building. Alone. No one followed her. No one pushed her. No one touched
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My Family Chose The Fake Heiress Then Begged For Me Back Chapter 04 Mia walked me through the foundation’s operations the next morning. All smiles, all warmth. The finance officer slid a security token and a set of account credentials across the table. “Miss Aldrich, if you could inventory these and sign the transfer form.”
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My Family Chose The Fake Heiress Then Begged For Me Back Chapter 03 The Aldrich family’s annual charity gala—the Homeward Foundation Benefit. Crystal chandeliers and walls of flowers filled the ballroom. Guests drifted through the room with champagne in hand. The banner at the entrance read Homeward Foundation: Bringing Them Home. Front and center was
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My Family Chose The Fake Heiress Then Begged For Me Back Chapter 02 I was sleeping soundly in the guest room when Mia knocked on my door again, her eyes red. “The master bedroom was always supposed to be yours. I’ve had it for eighteen years, and that wasn’t right. “ “You should move in.
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My Family Chose The Fake Heiress Then Begged For Me Back Chapter 01 I have a habit. I say yes to everything. Then I do the exact opposite. When I was eight, my foster dad told me to keep watch while he stole from Walmart. I nodded seriously. Then I turned to a woman nearby
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