Chapter 4

Ivanna panicked and immediately took the contract and placed it on Abby’s hand who was still confused by her sudden reaction.

“Please hide it,” she murmured before she looked at herself in the mirror.

“What are you doing here sister? I am sorry for what happened. I just like that dress. I didn’t know that it was tailored specially for you. I can give you if you want,” Fiona said as she walked towards Ivanna with an innocent look.

“Fiona, dear, what are you talking about? This party was supposed to be yours in the first place if both of you weren’t swapped at birth. You are my true daughter and you deserve the best,” Mrs Baker said with a worried expression on her face.

“But mom, you and dad have taken care of sister for years. She is also your daughter. Mom, tomorrow is sister’s birthday too, can she join the party?” Fiona asked causing Ivanna to look at her coldly but a sarcastic look appeared on her face as she started understanding why people were looking at her like eh was stupid on their eighteenth birthday in her past life.

She was now sure that the cards sent were in Fiona’s name while she, was nowhere. However, that day, she kept entertaining guests while claiming it was her birthday. Even when it was time to cut the cake, she had insisted that it was her birthday and she should be the one cutting it but Fiona’s cake was larger than hers.

If she wasn’t wrong, what Fiona was saying right now, she must have said the same thing to the woman and that’s why they prepared the cake for her in the first place.

Abby and her two designers listened and watched everything with frowns on their faces.

At times, they didn’t understand why Ivanna hid her face and also said that she had a negative image but now seeing what was happening in front of them, they gradually understood everything and even pitied the girl.

“What nonsense as you talking about? If she wants to come to the party she can but she must not steal your thunder! It's your big day and she should know her best. However, looking at the shop where she chose to go shopping, it was evident that she knew her place! I can’t see any gowns here,” Mrs Bakers said sarcastically causing Abby’s and the other's faces to turn ugly.

“Yes, I don’t have money to buy a gown in luxurious shops like the two of you,” Ivanna said as she nodded her head but no matter how much she pretended to be strong, she was hurting not believing that she had even blind not to see how the woman hated her yet she still claimed that Mrs Bakers loved her and even refused to go back to her family.

“Mom, we still haven’t bought the accessories yet. Sister, you have a good taste when choosing them, can you please accompany us?” Fiona said not paying attention to what her mother had said but she was inwardly happy seeing her mother hating Ivanna.

“I am sorry but I rarely wear that,” Ivanna said and she wasn’t lying.

Most of the accessories were given to her by her brother and father. Some of them were the jewels people gave their father to curry favor with him and ended up in her room after her mother chose the best.

“Let’s go, I can testify that she doesn’t. If she joins us, am afraid that we will get disdainful looks on the way,” Mrs Bakers said as she pulled her daughter walking out of the shop.

Fiona didn’t look at Ivanna or say anything else but allowed her mother to drag her outside.

“Is that your family?” the designer woman asked her and Ivanna hummed before sitting on the couch feeling her energy drained after listening to the mother and daughter.

“Now you have seen a part of my life. Are you still interested in being the ambassador?” Ivanna said as she gave herself a cold laugh.

She had thought that she would just appear at the shop and by the time she would be their ambassador, she would have gotten out of the Bakers but who knew that she would get the contract immediately she showed her face? She didn’t know how to feel.

“You were swapped at birth with that girl?” Abby asked and Ivanna nodded her head.

“What about your biological family? Why aren’t you back to them?” she asked once more.

“Heard they aren’t financially stable. I want to get money before I look for them,” Ivanna said what was on her mind but Abby and the rest shook their heads.

“With your appearance, I don’t think your family is average,” the man said causing Ivanna to frown.

“What do you mean?” she asked as she couldn’t understand what they were trying to say.

“You have a certain nobility, well that seems to be yours from birth, I guess. As if that woman is the one who brought you up and she doesn’t have the same nobility aura as you. This means that your biological parents aren’t just Tom and Jerry. Also, that girl, she doesn’t have the aura that you have. She has the innocent and her elegant aura is just forming. I guess your family…” the man explained shocking Ivanna.

She remembered that most people said that she didn’t have any resemblance to the people she knew as her biological parents. The same people who brought up Fiona. She had been suspicious but even before she got into that matter, she had been murdered. Now hearing someone saying that.

“Girl, before you go back with them, make sure you do a DNA test to prove that you are their child,” the other designer said.

“We can still sign the contract. However, am afraid that if you use their surname, it will be troublesome in the future," Abby said making Ivanna nod that was what was in her mind.

The family would claim that she had signed it when she was still a Baker so the money belonged to them.

“You can use my surname for the time being till you find your biological family,” Abby said stunning them.

“What?” Ivanna asked in disbelief.

“Although I seem to be young, I am actually older than that woman. I just know how to take good care of myself. Always wished to have a daughter but I don’t have one. You can become my goddaughter. And if you fail to find your biological parents, I can adopt you into my family,” Abby said and Ivanna couldn’t believe it.

She wondered what she had done to have the woman help her so much. Tears started flowing down.

“Now, sign this before they come to find you. You should come here tomorrow and they will help you get ready.”