The Hacker Heiress: Too Late For Regret

Chapter 3

Word Count: 741 | Released on: 11/06/2026

e small house pressed in on her. The anger she felt toward the Sinclairs sat like a

breaths were too shallow, too quick. A faint, unnatural flush was creeping up Helen's neck

his one-kicked in. She pressed two fingers to Helen's wrist and felt the t

withd

ghtstand, reaching for the small brown bottle of

as g

y calm, her mind racing. She began a methodical search of the roo

shoulder. "Grandma. Wake

h confusion and guilt. She avoided Aria'

oice was firm, cutting through

is afternoon," she whispered, the names tasting like ash in her mouth. Jim Tuck

continued, her voice trembling. "They heard.

a compound she had painstakingly made using the limited resources of this town, a formula that existed nowhere else

h, always broke. They had spent years b

sobbed softly. "I shouldn

her voice dangerously calm. She sto

jacket. She walked out of the room, her movements precise and si

orhood felt alien. The peaceful facade hid the ugliness she was about to confront. Her foot

raised her fist and pounded on it.

Brenda Tucker's voice whined through t

in place. Brenda's face, puffy from sleep, appeared in th

e," Aria said. No gr

hat medicine? I have no idea

ge man with shifty eyes. He fl

d Molly-evaporated completely. She took a step back. Then, with a f

ock and chain exploded inward. The door flew open, sla

ped over the threshold. The ruined door hung cro

t from a back room. Their faces were p

took a slow step forward, her presen

cine. Wher

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The Hacker Heiress: Too Late For Regret

Xiao Youzi Young Adult

“For fifteen years, Aria hid her true identity as the world's most elite hacker, living a quiet, impoverished life just to care for her frail adoptive grandmother. Then, her wealthy biological family suddenly showed up at her peeling front door. They didn't come out of love. They wanted to drag her back to New York to save their failing corporation and appease a depressed father she had never known. Her aunt and uncle looked at her cheap clothes with blatant disgust, calling her rude and uncouth behind her back. Worse, their arrival shattered her peaceful sanctuary. Her grandmother, feeling like a burden, cried and begged Aria to leave with them. In the chaos, greedy relatives took advantage of the situation to steal her grandmother's life-saving, priceless medicine, leaving the old woman gasping for air on her deathbed. Aria watched her grandmother suffer, her heart burning with a glacial fury. She couldn't understand why these arrogant strangers thought they could just buy her compliance, or why human greed always had to destroy the only pure things in her life. "I'll go to New York," Aria told them calmly. But as the luxury sedan sped toward Manhattan, she secretly reactivated her dark web terminal, bringing a global intelligence network back online. They thought they were bringing home a submissive, uneducated girl to use as a pawn. They had no idea they had just invited their worst nightmare into their empire.”