They Forced Me To Be Their Missing Daughter Novel – Three days before the proposal my boyfriend had secretly planned for me, the daughter the Whitmores raised tipped me off. I pretended not to know a thing. Three days later, she dragged me to the proposal venue. I was just about to fake a look of surprise when my boyfriend dropped to one knee in front of Chloe Whitmore in full view of everyone. Chloe covered her mouth in delighted shock. “Natalie, I honestly had no idea he was proposing to me.
You two have always been so close, I thought it was going to be you…” Mason Sterling looked at me like I was beneath him. “Natalie, so what if you’re the Whitmores’ biological daughter? Chloe and I grew up together. Take this as a lesson. Learn your place, and stop reaching for things that were never yours.” My best friend Mia was furious. “And you’re just going to take that?” I could. *** When the diamond ring slid onto Chloe’s ring finger, every amused, mocking gaze in the room turned to me. “She really thought it was for her.
That’s hilarious.” “If that were me, I’d want the ground to open up and swallow me whole. That’s mortifying.” “She deserves it. Everybody knows Chloe and Mason are the real couple. Just because she’s the Whitmores’ biological daughter, she thinks she gets to snatch everything away from Chloe.” Mia started forward on the spot. I grabbed her arm and stopped her. “They’re doing this on purpose, just to humiliate you.
And you’re seriously going to take it?” “Why wouldn’t I?” As I watched Mason pull Chloe into his arms and shoot me a taunting smirk, all I felt was relief. At last, I didn’t have to keep playing along with this whole family’s lunatic act. Three years ago, when I first joined Whitmore Holdings, Mr. Whitmore, the head of the company, had looked at me with red-rimmed eyes. “Natalie, after all this time, you’ve finally decided to come home?” He had gone on, “Back then, you ran away after a fight with Chloe.
She still blames herself for it.” I explained it over and over again. My name wasn’t Natalie Whitmore. It was Jenna Carter. It said so right there on my employment paperwork. But they stared at me with grave expressions and said, “Now that you’re home, enough with the tantrum. Was it really necessary to make up a fake name? What, are you trying to cut ties with the Whitmores? Or would you only be satisfied if Chloe were sent away? She’s lived with this family for more than twenty years. Sending her away now would be no different from abandoning her.” That was when I found out this family had both the daughter the Whitmores raised and the Whitmores’ biological daughter.
After the Whitmores’ biological daughter was brought back home, she couldn’t stand how the family sided with the daughter they had raised at every turn. Even the guy she’d basically been promised to since childhood never took her side. Three years ago, after a huge fight with her family, she stormed out and disappeared. No one had heard from her since. And somehow, I looked a lot like her. Mason stepped in front of Chloe protectively. “During the three years you vanished, Chloe was worried sick about you.
She thought everything was her fault and nearly spiraled into depression.” “As long as you stop making trouble, I’ll honor our engagement. But on one condition: you are never to give Chloe a hard time again.” I wanted no part of this family’s mess, so I quit on the spot. Mason chased after me. He tossed me a bank card with three hundred grand on it. “Are you trying to drive Chloe insane again?” “Stay, and you’ll get one every month.” Who says no to that? So I played the part of the Whitmores’ biological daughter.
I kept my head down, stayed out of sight during the day, and collected the money on schedule. But Chloe always found new ways to frame me. Either she’d throw herself down the stairs or slip something she was allergic to into her own soup. The security footage was always there, and not a single one of them was willing to believe me. At three hundred grand a month, it felt less like pay and more like compensation for emotional distress. Now they had finally stopped pretending.
And I could finally quit. In full view of everyone, I walked up to the two of them. “Congratulations on finally ending up together. I really am happy for you both.” “I wish you nothing but happiness from here on out. I’ll be going now.” Chloe froze. Mason frowned. “Natalie, what exactly are you playing at?” Chloe’s eyes reddened too. “Natalie, please don’t do this. I really had no idea Mason was going to propose to me. If you’re unhappy about it, I’ll give you the ring.” “You don’t have to.” “Natalie, I’m not just saying that.
You can have the ring.” “No, really, I don’t want it.” “Ah—” I pushed her hand away, and the ring dropped straight to the floor. Chloe’s eyes instantly filled with tears. “Natalie, do you really hate me that much?” “That’s enough!” Mason pulled Chloe behind him.