The Billionaire Ex-Wife and the Beggar He Became novel Chapter 30

"That's right!"

Neither of the two female staff knew that the woman standing before them—Winona—was the same girl who had been cast out by her own family, the infamous 'impostor heiress.'

The name Winona wasn't even her original one. She'd legally changed it the day she turned eighteen.

At the registry office, the clerk had looked at her and asked, "What's your name? Your surname?"

She couldn't use the surname 'Shepherd' anymore—not after everything that had happened. So her mind went to the only person who'd ever shown her genuine kindness: her grandmother, Helga Perkins.

"My surname is Perkins," she told the clerk.

"And your first name?"

She'd hesitated, thinking of how her adoptive parents had driven her out, and her biological parents had refused to acknowledge her. It seemed that wherever she went, she was always one step too late.

"Winona," she said softly.

From her eighteenth birthday onward, she was Winona Perkins.

But before that, before she turned sixteen, she had been Joy Shepherd.

Back then, she'd been the darling of the Shepherd family—showered with love by her parents, grandparents, and brothers. She was a bright, top student with a future everyone admired.

Then, when she was sixteen, her second brother, Jason, was diagnosed with leukemia.

The entire family went to the hospital for bone marrow compatibility tests, and that was when the truth came out: Joy wasn't a Shepherd by blood.

The news hit the family like a bolt of lightning, shattering everything they thought they knew.

An urgent investigation into the hospital records led to the obvious answer: a mix-up at birth. The most likely candidate was the baby girl born in the next room that very same day.

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