The True Heiress Returns (Tilda Jenson) novel Chapter 144

Chapter 144 Many Things to Say

Tilda’s clothes were soaked through.

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Her pale, beautiful face was covered in raindrops, but nothing could hide those deep, mysterious eyes–like old wells, impossible to read.

Her long, dark hair hung wet and straight over her shoulders.

Sitting by the river in the light rain, the night wind swirling around her, Tilda seemed to blend into the city’s dazzling lights.

There was a shattered kind of beauty about her, something haunting and fragile, like a butterfly breaking free.

She caught everyone’s attention in an instant.

No one could look away.

No one knew where to put their feelings.

You could almost hear your own heartbeat, but you couldn’t reach her.

Tilda gave off an invisible loneliness, a quiet storm that kept everyone at arm’s length, so intense it felt like it might swallow you whole.

She swirled her Bloody Mary, eyes narrowed, then tipped her head back and drank it all in one go, not caring about the alcohol or whether she’d get drunk.

It was like drinking was the only way to dull this miserable feeling.

Tilda had thought today would be a happy day.

But instead… it was a disaster.

DJ–the apprentice Tilda had taken under her wing on the dark web–turned out to be her own big brother, Dominic!

It was like the universe was playing a cruel joke.

She should have realized it sooner… DJ was just the initials for Dominic Jenson.

But who would’ve guessed someone could be so dumb as to use their real initials as a username on the dark web?

If anyone traced it back, he’d be toast a million times over!

This time, Tilda’s own cleverness had backfired.

She’d thought just like everyone else.

No one in their right mind would ever use their real initials as a nickname online, especially not somewhere dangerous.

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But Dominic did the exact opposite.

It was like hiding in plain sight–the riskiest spot is sometimes the safest.

So…

Out of respect for her apprentice, Tilda never investigated.

And now, that was one of her biggest regrets.

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If she’d known DJ was Dominic, she never would have met him, never would have gotten involved, and definitely wouldn’t have taken him as an apprentice!

But now, Tilda couldn’t talk to Una about it.

Andy wasn’t in Slosa either.

Even though Andy saw the dark web announcement and messaged Tilda on WhatsApp, her mind was such a mess she didn’t even know how to reply

No way he’d accept someone back into his life so easily, especially with the Jensons‘ weird family situation- a spoiled adopted daughter, Kyla, and Tilda always stepping on landmines.

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