Filed to story: That Campus Prince Is a Girl
Xander said, “If you can actually get Cameron to show up, I’ll wash my hair standing on my head.”
Tyrell had no words.
Cameron handed in her test paper and bolted out of the classroom. A bad feeling was creeping in, and good thin she could submit her paper early, as there was no way she could’ve lasted until noon.
Back at Noble Vista, she cleaned up and finally settled down. Her phone, which she’d left off to the side, started ringing. She got a call from an unknown number, but she still picked up after a moment of hesitation. “Hello?”
“Hey, Cam. It’s me, Tyrell,” Tyrell introduced him
Cameron paused. “You need something?”
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Tyrell chuckled. “So, after we won the basketball game, and everyone on the team got a reward. We all know it was thanks to you. Tonight, after evening study, we want to treat you to some late-night snacks. You in?”
“No.”
Cameron hung up on Tyrell without a second thought, went back to the living room, flopped onto the sofa, and hugged a soft pillow to her chest.
She ordered some takeout. Finally, she could actually relax for a bit. All she had to do was show up for her math exam at 2
PM later.
She’d barely settled in when her phone started ringing again, and this time, it was all from another unfamiliar number
She figured it was probably someone from the basketball team, so she answered the call to be polite, but a familiar voice came through instead.
“Cameron.” Milena practically ground her teeth. “Congrats. I heard you just scored a 300-thousand-dollar reward”
Cameron had no words. The second she recognized that voice, she pulled the phone away, hung up, and blocked the number without a word.
Milena was too annoying and always ruined Cameron’s mood, so Cameron didn’t even want to waste a single second on her.
Cameron lay back on the sofa and closed her eyes to rest.
A little over ten minutes later, the landline in the room started ringing. Cameron figured it was her food delivery
But when she picked up, she heard the property staff’s friendly voice. “Hi, Ms. Wallace. Someone called asking for you. Should we put it through?”
Cameron asked, “Who is it?”
“They didn’t mention their name. They just said they have something really important to tell you.”
“I’m not taking it,” Cameron replied flatly. She already had a pretty good guess who it was.
Ten minutes later, her food finally arrived. She’d ordered pork rib and yam soup with red dates, steamed sea bass, and a small bowl of peach kernel and pork liver congee.
She’d ordered a pork and sweet potato soup, a lemon herb baked sea bass, and a creamy chicken brown rice bowl. As she was on her period, she had to eat lighter and more nutritious meals.
Cameron sat at the massive dining table and began to eat.
Meanwhile, over half a mile from Noble Vista, Milena, still fuming from the poster on the school bulletin board, had already called their parents to let them know that Cameron had just pocketed 300 thousand dollars.
Normally, the Wallace family wouldn’t have cared about that amount of money, as it was just enough to cover Milena’s tuition for a year.
But now that the Chapman family had officially cut ties with them, several of their major business deals had fallen through. No one knew what the future held for the Wallace family.
Cameron’s 300 thousand dollars wasn’t a small sum to the current Wallace family, and her parents agreed that she should hand over every cent to the family.
Milena tried to catch Cameron after school, but she was already nowhere to be found.
The three of them figured Cameron must have gone back to Noble Vista, so they jumped in the car and headed over immediately.
But half a mile from the estate, security cameras caught Milena’s face in the passenger seat and triggered an alert. The staff at Noble Vista intercepted their car and ordered them to turn back without even letting them near the gate.
Milena and her parents were absolutely furious. Finally, they thought about calling Cameron.
But even when they tried calling from a different number, Cameron had already blocked them.
They managed to get Noble Vista’s property management’s number, hoping to reach Cameron that way, but Canon saw right through it.
Furious, the three of them sat fuming in the car, staring at Noble Vista’s gold-plated entrance.
“She’s doing this on purpose.” Milena snapped.
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Martin flew into a rage. “I told you we shouldn’t have taken in someone with no clear background from the start. But no, you wouldn’t listen. Look at how cold and selfish she is now.”
He was clearly lashing out at Heidi. Knowing she was in the wrong, Heidi mumbled, “Back then, I didn’t really have a choice.”
Instead of answering Milena, Heidi patted the driver’s seat. “Jim, go grab us a few bottles of water.”
Once Jim was gone, Milena pressed again, “Mom, Dad, are you hiding something from me?”
Then, Martin replied coldly, “Cameron isn’t our daughter.”
Milena whipped her head around, staring in shock at her parents in the backseat. Her eyes were wide as saucers, and her mouth was hanging open like she could fit an egg in it.
“What? Cameron’s not really my sister?” Milena asked.
Milena couldn’t believe that they weren’t real sisters. But before Heidi could answer, it all made sense to Milena.
They looked nothing alike. Cameron was tall and slender, while Milena was not so much of that.
Heidi nodded. “That’s right, she’s not our biological daughter.”
“So what’s the real story? Did you guys just adopt her from somewhere?”
Finally, it made sense why Martin and Heidi only doted on her so much.
Heidi glanced at Martin, and when she saw he wasn’t going to stop her, she decided to spill the beans.
“She wasn’t adopted. Your aunt swapped her in,” she said.
“Aunt Jessica?” Milena frowned a little. “She did the swap?”
Milena’s aunt had already passed away. In Milena’s memory, Jessica always favored Cameron over her, so she never really liked her.
On the flip side, Cameron adored Jessica and trusted her completely. When Jessica passed away, Cameron cried so hard that she almost passed out.
What a shame. It turned out that their aunt was a human trafficker.
That thought actually made Milena feel a little better. She sneered, “Why’d Aunt Jessica bring Cameron into our family then?”
Heidi looked upset. “I gave birth to a boy, but he died during labor. Your aunt was afraid I’d break down, so she secretly swapped him with a healthy baby girl.”
“And that healthy baby girl was Cameron?” Milena asked, her mouth dropped open again in shock.
She thought, ‘So I really did have a brother. He just didn’t make it. And Amelia’s so-called “fianc?” died right after he was born.”
Heidi nodded with a sigh. After a pause, Milena asked, confused, “Then why didn’t Aunt Jessica just swap in a boy?”
Her dad replied, “You think it’s that easy? Cameron’s birth mom passed out during labor, and that’s the only reason your aunt had the chance to take her away.”
Milena was silent, then asked again curiously, “So who are Cameron’s real parents?”
Heidi shook her head. Honestly, they had no idea. After the swap, they’d been so afraid of getting caught that they left the hospital in the middle of the night.
When Cameron’s birth mother woke up and realized she’d given birth to a stillborn, she was so devastated she fainted again. No one knew what happened after that.
Milena sat in stunned silence, trying to process it all.
After a while, she muttered, “Even if she’s not really your daughter, you raised her for eighteen years. She owes us, doesn’t she? If it weren’t for us, she’d probably have starved to death.”
Martin’s face was grim. “After everything we’ve invested in her, you bet we’re getting every penny’s worth back, and then some.”
From the very beginning, Cameron existed for one reason, which was to secure the marriage alliance between the race and Chapman families.
That was why Martin sent her to the best schools and dressed her in designer clothes. All of it was to make sure she was worthy of Amelia.
But now, Cameron had destroyed that marriage berova
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