The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 222

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Chapter 222

Ryan came in from backstage out of breath, dragging Teresa with him.

“I caught her! She’s the one who cut the wires!” Ryan shouted.

Teresa’s face was pale as she looked at everyone her whole body trembling.

Andrew narrowed his eyes at her. “You? I was just about to look for you.”

His voice wasn’t loud, but the chill in it made Teresa’s scalp tingle.

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As he spoke, Lewis tapped lightly on the keyboard, and a screenshot of a forum post from the opening ceremony popped up on the screen.

The title stood out in bold: [Digging into Natalie’s ‘Glorious History: Three years at the bottom of the class, then a 1599 on the SAT? Can you believe it?]

The poster’s ID, timestamp, and IP address were all clearly visible.

Andrew fixed his gaze on Teresa, his voice quiet but icy, each word landing with a chilling finality that made everyone tense.

“You used your own account to post this, and the IP address traces right back to your dorm,” Andrew sard

Before Teresa could even try to explain. Lewis hit play and a recording started playing.

Emma, you told me to post that thread. Are you sure nothing bad will happen?” Teresa’s voice sounded nervous.

“What are you scared of? You didn’t use your real name. Nobody can trace it back to you,” Emma replied confidently.

“But what if…” Teresa hesitated.

“There’s no ‘what if. Just do it,” Emma cut her off.

“Alright, so how should I write the post?” Teresa asked.

“Just say she was dead last in her class for three years, then got a 1599 on the SAT. Make it obvious she cheated her way into college, Emma replied.

Teresa’s body swayed, and when Ryan let go of her collar, she collapsed to the floor like a puppet with its strings cut

The crowd erupted again.

“So she was the one who started all those rumors about Natalie at the opening ceremony?”

“Why is Emma so nasty? Natalie never did anything to her. She just got dragged into this for no reason!”

“Wow, these two are really thick as thieves.”

Ethan’s lips curled into a cold, hard line as he stared at Teresa.

“Spreading rumors and slander, if it’s serious enough, you could be looking at up to three years in prison.” Ethan said coldiv

Teresa’s tears streamed down her face as she crawled over and clung to Emma’s leg, her voice sharp and broken

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#vima, please, say something! You made me do it, you told me to post that thread. Please, help me, say something Leres begged her desperation clear.

Emma shook her off without even looking at her

Blake strode toward Emma, his footsteps slow and deliberate, cach click of his shoes echoing through the room like a ticking countdown.

His expression was eerily calm, so calm it sent chills down everyone’s spire.

He stopped right in front of Emma, crouched down, and locked eyes with her.

Emma shrank back in terror, even a single second of eye contact with this grim reaper felt like torture.

But in the next moment, the cold barrel of a gun was pressed against her head.

The moment everyone in the conference room realized what Blake was holding, the whole room sacked in a collective. panicked breath.

So it was you. You set Natalie up. had people ambush her, and even tried to mess up her face?”

His tone was gentle, but to Emma, it sounded like a death knell.

She didn’t even have time to process how Blake called Natalie his sister. She was shaking like a leaf, tears and snot streaming down her face, too terrified to even twitch.

No… I… I was wrong. Mr. Mitchell…” Emma stammered, her voice trembling with fear.

Some people in the crowd sucked in a sharp breath, others clapped a hand over their mouths, and a few even squeezed therr yes shut in fear.

3lake was the Grim Reaper of Harbor City. Everyone knew his name, and everyone knew he’d kill without blinking, his nethods as ruthless as they come.

They couldn’t believe he actually had the guts to pull a gun in the middle of school.

But some people caught the key word in his sentence. “Sister?”

Natalie is his sister?”

Seriously? But her last name is Moore!”

‘Didn’t we hear a few months ago that the Mitchell family found their long–lost sister? Could it really be Natalie?

‘Holy crap, the way things look right now, it really seems like it…”

‘No wonder Natalie is so close with Rvan and Lucas. I thought there was something else going on, but turns out they re siblings!”

The principal tried to stand up and say something, but his legs turned to jelly and he sank right back into his seat, too scared

to utter a word.

All he could do was pray nothing would blow up. Even if it did, he was powerless to stop it.

Blake narrowed his eyes at Emma, then raised the gun and tapped her on the head with the barrel.

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Nou really thought you could keep going after my sister over and over? Did you think the Mitchell family was just some kind of joke? Blake’s voice was icy and full of menace.

Emma finally realized what was happening. She squeezed her eyes shut, crying her heart out, but too scared to make a

sound.

She was paralyzed by fear, but also in total disbelief. –

She just couldn’t wrap her head around the fact that Natalie was actually the Mitchells‘ long–lost daughter.

Wait… so Lucas is just her cousin? Emma thought, stunned. All this time, he was just her cousin?

Emma slumped to the floor, her mind exploding like a thousand bombs going off a once.

When that realization hit, she let out a crazed laugh. “Ha! Little cousin? Are you kidding me?”

she’d been obsessed with Lucas for years, chasing him from high school to cofrege, asking him out for a meal again and again, only to get rejected every single time.

She always thought Lucas was just cold and aloof, and if she kept trying, maybe someday she’d finally win him over. But when she saw Lucas suddenly being so attentive to Natalie, Emma was eaten up with jealousy.

After everything she’d done, now she finds out Natalie is actually Lucas’s cousin?

Turns out they’re actually family, real blood relatives?

she’d messed up so much, made so many enemies, only to realize Natalie wasn’t even competing for Lucas. She was just being family with her cousin, nothing more.

she suddenly remembered the opening ceremony, when she saw Lucas hand Natalie a bottle of water in the crowd. It felt ike a knife twisting in her heart. Why did Natalie get all that from him?

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