Rejecting The Billionaire: The Genius Heiress Returns

Chapter 5

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. The room was small, with a faint scent of lav

words, the faces in the old photograph. Find them. Th

ade bracelet her grandfather, Theodore Blai

ing one, the one that was a fortress

Chlo, you miss me already?" Alex's si

t of tired amusement in her voice

e instantly shifted to professional. "Word is, the jade bracelet you're looki

end me the

? Your cover..." Alex'

m for argument. "And what about that p

ver you say. But I still don't get it. You're spending millions on a plo

hloe's lips. "I like the

tically. "The money's been transferred to y

hloe ack

p year' for over a year now. Want me to pull some

take the SATs. I want to try li

luxury a "normal life" was for her. "Okay,

ad bypassed The Undercroft's security, scanning their auction protocols and VIP list. She then infiltr

e, Adler sta

k. "Chloe Sterling, age twenty. Public records show she was adopted by the

ened. That was more suspici

as of a few hours ago, officially homele

eyes. It was nothing like the cool, incisive woman he had met. A penniless,

she now?"

in Queens. After that, she vanished. My men los

cold. "In New York City, Aegis

are... exceptional," Evan admitted.

into a full-blown fire. He stood, walking t

auction at The Undercroft. A jade bracelet, rumored to be an

elf, but he was a connoisseur of history

ry of the night was not the bracelet,

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“For years, Chloe lived as the quiet, adopted daughter of the wealthy Blair family, enduring their toxic hypocrisy only for the sake of her loving grandfather. But the very moment her grandfather's funeral reception began, her adoptive mother publicly announced her immediate expulsion from the family in front of all the elite guests. Her stepsister clung to their mother's arm with fake tears, while secretly whispering that Chloe would end up living like a dog in some dirty slum. The family lawyer was sent to humiliate her further, sliding a severance agreement and a check across a diner table as if paying off a beggar. "Mrs. Blair feels it's a generous amount for you to start a new life." They stripped her of her home and her status, waiting for her to break down, scream, and beg for mercy in the freezing New York rain. They thought they had just ruined a helpless, penniless orphan who was absolutely nothing without the Blair family's charity. What they didn't know was that they had just set a monster free. Instead of pleading, Chloe calmly signed the papers, left their pathetic money on the table, and walked away to reclaim her true identity. She wasn't just the long-lost heir to the Sterling dynasty, but also "Spectre," the digital underworld's most legendary hacker. And later that night, as she casually dropped forty million dollars at a black-market auction, she caught the obsessive gaze of the city's most dangerous billionaire.”