The Heiress Nobody Saw Coming (Natalie and Marcus) novel Chapter 2

A sharp yet impatient glint flickered in Natalie's eyes. She didn't want to pick a fight with Selena over something like this. It wasn't that she was afraid to; she simply felt it was unnecessary and didn't want to waste their time.

However, Selena didn't want to let her go.

"Mom, look! The daughter you raised for 20 years turned out to be a traitor and a thief."

Diana exited the car at this moment. She looked at Natalie, then at the ring on the floor. She had raised Natalie for the past 20 years and had accepted Natalie's many blood transfusions, but she hated Natalie for taking away her biological daughter's life.

"Natalie, why did you steal the ring Mr. Miller gave to Selena?" Diana didn't seek to clarify the situation and immediately assumed it was Natalie's fault.

"I didn't take it." Natalie calmly added, "I didn't take this ring. It's inappropriate to assume I stole it, Mrs. Langley."

Diana retorted, "You said you didn't take it, but why is the ring in your backpack? What you're wearing and using were bought with the Langleys' money, even this backpack."

Diana was disappointed. "I know you're unhappy that we asked you to leave since Selena is back. You're resentful, but don't blame us for it. Our daughter was stranded on the streets and suffered years of pain because of you. Don't you think you should compensate us for this?"

Natalie looked at Diana as if she were looking at an idiot. The nurse had been the one to take Selena away. At that time, she was still a baby—what would she have known?

Plus, when the nurse took Selena away, the hospital was afraid of taking full responsibility and acquired Natalie from God-knows-where to give the Langleys. The hospital and the nurse were the ones at fault. It had nothing to do with Natalie.

Even if the Langleys had raised her for 20 years, she had repeatedly transfused her blood to Diana and helped Victor strategize to make more money this whole time. When the Langleys' business was about to go bankrupt, she'd secretly saved them.

She never owed the Langleys anything, let alone Selena.

In truth, Natalie was also a victim. Anyone would want to be raised by their birth parents. Who would want to abandon their real family to be raised by another for no reason?

"Let me say it again—I didn't take the ring." Natalie didn't want to argue with Diana. Arguing with an idiot would only lower her standards.

"Don't think about leaving this place before you explain yourself."

Selena stomped her feet on the ground, destroying everything that belonged to Natalie except that ring.

"Ty, look. Natalie stole the ring you gave me."

After Selena stomped on everything, she waved at the door. A tall and slender figure emerged from the entrance.

The man looked handsome but expressionless. It was Tyler Miller, the Langley daughter's fiancé.

He had been Natalie's before. Now, he was Selena's.

Tyler came closer. He looked at everything on the floor, his gaze finally landing on the ring in Selena's hand.

"Natalie, did you steal the Langley family's ring?"

The corner of Natalie's mouth twitched. Tyler had personally handed this ring to her. Even if she returned the marriage arrangement to Selena, she still had the right to handle the ring as she saw fit.

Plus, when Natalie knew she wasn't a Langley, she immediately told Tyler the truth. She made it clear she wouldn't fight for the marriage arrangement or the ring.

"You presume I stole the ring, right, Mr. Miller?" Natalie looked at Tyler calmly. Her eyes appeared cold, and her attitude was indifferent.

That attitude and cold and distant gesture of calling him "Mr. Miller" inexplicably angered Tyler.

Tyler had always liked Natalie. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gotten engaged to her when he was 18 or waited for Natalie to turn 20 before marrying her.