Chapter 30 Unexpected Turn

• Perhaps the universe seemed to conspire against her existence, yet she wondered what transgression she could have committed. Mirabella's eyes welled with tears as life's burdens bore down on her relentlessly. "This is it," she thought, "a life hardly worth living."
• "Miss! Miss!" Mr. Simon's voice snapped her from her reverie, and she turned to face him, forcing a faint smile.
• "I apologize, but how could this be possible? There's no way my father would leave everything to Isabella!" she exclaimed, her voice trembling. Mr. Simon wiped sweat from his brow and regarded Mirabella with a puzzled expression.