Leila was completely floored by what Aiden had just told her. She stared at him, desperate for any sign that he might be joking. “You’re messing with me, right?”
Aiden just watched her, his lips curling into a cold smile. “Why would we bother lying to you?”
All the color drained from Leila’s face. Her knees buckled and she sank to the floor, shaking as she tried to process it. “Lucinda isn’t the Norwood family’s real daughter? She… she’s been lying to us all along?”
And Lydia… Lydia was the real heiress.
It was over. Everything was over.
Meanwhile, Lucinda was in the music room, trying to practice the piano. Her fingers kept slipping. She couldn’t focus at all. Her mind kept drifting back to what happened yesterday at Capital College. Leila had gotten slapped by Lydia. Knowing Leila, there was no way she’d ever let that go.
And Lucinda had been stirring things up lately, always adding fuel to the fire whenever she saw Leila. She was pretty sure Leila had finally snapped and done something to Lydia.
She wondered if the people Leila found could actually handle Lydia. If they pulled it off, then Lucinda’s worries would be over. If not… she’d have to figure out a way to keep herself out of trouble.
After going over it in her head, Lucinda turned off airplane mode on her phone. She’d put it on earlier, just in case Leila tried to reach her. That way, if anything happened to Lydia, she could prove she hadn’t been in contact with Leila at all.
As soon as her phone reconnected, a message from Paige popped up.
[Lucinda, Leila’s lost it. She’s actually planning to kidnap Lydia. I tried to talk her out of it, but she wouldn’t listen. I can’t do anything.]
Lucinda’s heart dropped. She jumped up from the piano bench and ran straight out of the music room, panic all over her face.
Downstairs, Mr. Norwood, Cameron, and Kylie were sitting together in the living room watching TV, when Lucinda came racing down the stairs, looking like she’d seen a ghost.
Kylie shot up. “Lucinda, what happened?”
Lucinda could barely get the words out. “Dad, Mom, something’s wrong!”
Cameron’s face tightened with worry. “Lucinda, slow down. Tell us what’s going on.”


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Olha a história bem boa só algumas coisas são chatas ( nesse tipo de história sempre troca as filhas pela a da empregada ou então pegam uma menina pra criar) pelo menos eles tratam a filha bem só enche o saco que até agora a Lucinda tá lá enchendo ! Fora isso tá bom Connor é um fofo a família dela a ama muito só Lucinda pra abaixar o nível do livro já era pra ter resolvido isso e fazer ela pagar mais tudo bem li um livro chinês que era parecido só algumas coisas diferentes ,ais mesma coisa tipo ela salvou o Connor no início lá ela salvava o avô dele , no chinês ela não tinha um irmão mais novo com os pais adotivos , a mãe dela tinha 2 irmãos e todos os avós estavam vivos mais história quase igual e tem coisas tipo o triângulo que lá TB tinha até a Lucinda que no chines TB ficou o livro todo aprontando só no final a família descobria e se livrava dela aí ela ia morar com o cara que ela usa pra disfarçar que não gosta do Connor aí depois ainda quase matava a irmã dele e a mãe dele que ele via como ela era...
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