The Double ( or More ?) Life of The Fake Heiress

Chapter 46
Mirabella had barely stepped into the living room when Delilah, who was busy
organizing boxes, looked up and almost jumped out of her skin. The ledger she
was holding clattered onto the floor.
“Mira... what brings you back so soon? Weren't you supposed to visit Mrs.
Catherine?” Delilah asked, her face a picture of surprise. Quickly, she bent down
to retrieve the ledger and tossed it back into the box without a second thought.
Beside her. Shawn, calculator in one hand and spectacles perched on his nose,
set down his device. He glanced at his wristwatch before asking with mild
confusion, “Honey, you haven't been gone for more than a few hours. Did you
forget something?”
Mirabella cast a nonchalant glance at the box by Delilah’s feet and replied
casually, “She had company, so I came back.”
“Oh, I see...” Delilah said, the matter seemingly settled in her mind.
After a brief pause, she continued without much thought, “You haven't eaten yet,
have you? Your dad and I thought you wouldn't be back for lunch, so we haven't
prepared anything. Just give me a moment to put these away, and I'll start on
some food.”
As she spoke, Delilah quickly tossed a few more ledgers onto the coffee table
into the box, and Shawn's calculator followed suit. “Shawn, can you take this stuff
back to the room? I'll get started on lunch,” she instructed.
“Sure thing.” Shawn replied, sliding off his glasses and hoisting the box as he
headed upstairs.
Mirabella’s gaze lingered on his retreating figure, her thoughts a mystery. She
followed Delilah into the kitchen, lending a hand with the vegetables. She then
asked, as if it were an afterthought. “Did we have any visitors today?”
Delilah shook her head. “Nope, why do you ask all of a sudden?” she replied,
wondering if Mirabella had sensed something amiss.
“When I came in, I noticed a couple of extra clean pairs of shoes by the shoe
cabinet,” Mirabella said, her downcast, her voice betraying nothing unusual.
Delilah paused for a moment before laughing it off, “I was tidying up the shoe
cabinet this morning and got distracted by your dad. Must've forgotten to put
them away.”
Mirabella simply hummed in acknowledgment, then seemed to remember
something else. “Oh, and Mom, I ran into a group of men in black suits while
waiting for the elevator downstairs.”
Delilah paused again, about to respond, when her daughter continued. “They
looked quite intimidating. Kind of like those debt collectors you hear about, you
know? We don’t have any debts, do we?” Mirabella’s gaze was serious as she
looked at Delilah.
Feeling a strange sense of guilt under her daughter's scrutiny, Delilah quickly
shook her head. “No, we don’t owe anyone anything!” But after a few seconds,
she probed, “Were those men you saw really that-frightening?”
“Yeah, they didn’t seem like good news,” Mirabella stated plainly.
Upon hearing this, Delilah’s throat tightened around the words. “They're just from
the company’s finance department, not debt collectors. She swallowed them
back down.
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Shawn was right to worry. The
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company's staff had a daunting
image, and even if she told Mirabella
those were just finance guys, it might
scare her. Worse, her daughter might
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Regaining her composure, Delilah
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said with a steady voice. “It could be
that someone in the building took out
a loan with steep interest rates. If you
run into these types of people again,
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Mirabella turned to look at Delilah,
her gaze intensifying slightly as a
faint shadow cast by her long
eyelashes fell upon her face. She
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