Everyone Hates the Fake Heiress

s wealthy. They took me home by accident when I was bor

ew up in a poor family. She excelled academically

ed me for having bul

Josh Higgins. He was my father's

device and was determined to

that they'd discover I'd fallen for

Clara's

.

praised her for being bea

e for having lived the luxurious life that should have

me. I could only rely on myself and

er an affair and suffered massive b

ears to save her. So I set one co

e to see how dar

hospital bed and cried as she

have to start the st

.

I was the girl

llowing the rules. I played drums,

eing a troublemaker, a spoiled rich g

nior year, my parents discovere

lara, who went to th

y alike, and even had the same blood type,

witched at the hospita

rs, I grew up in the af

was poor. She excelled in both character a

referred a dau

or seventeen years. They threw a big

ile, wept as they

rs and couldn't accept m

high school showed

arning and chose art as my major. Later, I got into a

a design firm. I was always an overworke

irthday that day

me to the Higgins f

past years, I'd grown distant from b

part-time in college to make

uxury clothes and designer brands, while the Morgan family cooked for

casionally give me somethi

earned money to

ly, only Josh was in re

enwood, and the evening li

walked over three hundred meters to

plate was parked in the shade. Josh

me a bottle of expensive

eat as he watched me quietly.

my fingers through my silver hai

y did you get o

at six-thirty? I usually have

t and then asked, "Wh

really. I worked hard for a few years after graduation

e gently. He said with a slight smil

five years old

didn't care about me, but Josh st

m the art university suddenly ca

, here's

ith her number to Jo

ndsome and wealthy, and many wo

s slender fingers, and his

h, you're such

"Are you

n't take offense. I grinned and sa

ossed the card ou

.

er was set at a top r

n. Everyone else w

der now. Since that year in high sc

ce how much they've changed w

d me. "Sweetheart,

my eyes stung with tears. But she le

at word anymore. There was a distance

r food, and acted sweet. They were th

ce. No matter how good the food was,

rough that. I shouldn't hold onto hope

back to the doorstep, although

.

and porcelain skin. Every gesture

ter of attention at

all, handsome guy walked in with a bou

skipped

, Phillip Carter. He w

flowers. She gazed at Phillip with deep affect

t Phillip and I

r of my junior year in college.

didn't know he was the son of the Ca

ther and discovered how

ances, so we kept things secre

, I thought we could

like working in the country

just a fli

r the family business and got engaged to

llip didn't even glance at me

g a wonderful time, except for

. Higgins tried to persuade me to stay, but I excused

suddenly said, "Angel

ke, put it in a box,

being so thoughtful. I

cake. Back in our first year of high school, I saved up to buy

scalp tingle. "Wha

.

in high school, but I

know who Clara was ba

oo young back then to understand how much damage

ately asked what I

her ear. "I don't want to dwell on the past. Why keep bringin

nder me. I never had any grudge against you.

ou've already traumatized me. If you won't admit it, what am I supposed to

hugged Clara and then sho

nse of despair overwhelmed me. "I didn't do that! I never

on't call me Dad. Yo

igh school. You're still young, and you still have time to chan

er back then, they just assum

from falling. I knew I must l

tood up. "It's easy to find out who's lyin

s widened i

lowly, "The memory retrieval device our company just developed has already been re

e was soft and pleading. "Josh, don't m

e bone, but Josh's hand on my sho

mall thing. If you're determined to bring this up, you have to ac

too painful for me. I've spent years trying to forget

ed Clara, and Phillip rushed

I'll extract Angela's memories and see

us a fierce glare. "It's Clara's birthd

y birthd

heartb

ghter and quick

I couldn't hold back anymo

and tough, but deep do

e and was afraid to be left

y would stand up for me without

ted someone who would choose me for a li

hopelessly romantic. My experience of dating a g

rst love, but I w

.

I cried. By the end, Jo

silence and gently

he took out an expensive handk

tely drained. I was blank in my mind, a

any this evening. We'll extract you

y extraction just focus

nced yet. We'll have to review all your mem

art s

e to know about what happe

loving experience, but it

bably think I had ulterior motives, and the r

, Josh," I said

low, anxious voice, "Tell me

I never bullied Clara

d, saying,

ove with someone

ing slowed. His dark eyes were so intense that I

ut I could still fee

ruly shy. My ears and cheeks burned. I

.

fy and swollen when my birth mother from the Mo

r, and besides m

artment, scraping together a down payment, bu

illion from me because Clara

ame amount as she had given birth t

speech

. Instead, she brought homemade chicken soup and off

ou'd better go. I d

market, and the years had left deep li

ry for her. But it didn't mean I was going t

rtment, we'll all live together..." She tried to tug at my heartstrings with her tears. "The Hi

ns family hadn't given m

ked up my purse, and opened the door. "I ha

e your keys. I'll help yo

ou." I stood

mood, and I was restless a

and laughed around me,

slipped into the stairw

osh. "Do you want to go to

suddenly got close to me from behi

eek at my phone. "Wow,

s nosy, gossipy, and always t

in. I slapped it away. "Show some respect! D

you are? How do you have the nerve to talk to me

wasn't expecting it and fell to the floor. I grabbed

sfying. All the depression that had bui

to see myself as a victim any longer. It