Never Mistake a Queen for a Lapdog novel Chapter 1092

Noreen froze.

She was entirely convinced Sophia had stumbled onto some fabricated tabloid rumor.

But Sophia was adamant. "To put it simply, you are now the heir to the Harcourt Group!"

"You have to be misreading that."

"It's posted directly on the Harcourt Group's official website! There is zero chance this is fake!"

"Besides, who would have the guts to forge a press release like this?"

She had a point.

Still reeling in a state of absolute shock, Noreen quickly pulled out her phone and dialed Seth to figure out what was going on.

He answered on the first ring, as he always did.

Before she could even get a word out, his deep voice came through the speaker. "You're calling about the will, aren't you?"

Noreen took a breath. "...Yes."

"It's real," Seth said casually.

"And I actually had him draft it five years ago. They just waited until today to make it public."

The barrage of earth-shattering news left Noreen entirely speechless.

"And you don't have a problem with this?" she finally managed to ask after a long pause.

She had seen enough billionaire families tear each other apart over fractions of a percent, turning siblings into lifelong enemies.

Did Seth genuinely not care?

A low chuckle vibrated through the line. "Did you forget? When I walked away from the Harcourt family to start my own company, I explicitly said I was leaving their legacy behind."

Noreen went quiet.

He had said that.

And he had lived by it every single day since.

During the grueling early years of building his business, he endured every hardship imaginable.

Even when his company was on the brink of collapse, he refused to ask Wade Harcourt for a single cent.

That fierce independence was exactly why the Harcourt Group remained completely untouched when the Aurelion Group faced its federal investigation.

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