The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 3

Dorian was about to call off the engagement with the Ellington family when a sudden ring of the doorbell interrupted him.-

Dorian and Cordelia immediately got up to answer the door. Vivienne also got up, seeing as it was basic etiquette to greet the guests.

The visitor turned out to be Arabella. Dorian and Cordelia were taken aback, and even Vivienne raised an eyebrow. Weren’t they just at the Hawthorn Mansion and here Arabella was already on their doorstep?

“Dad, Mom, I came to visit you, and also to see my sister. I brought her some clothes.” Arabella was dressed in a light–colored dress, her hair pulled to the sides, and she wore a sweet smile on her face. She had an air of refined tranquility about her.

Cordelia glanced at the bag in Arabella’s hands and her expression immediately changed. These clothes were bought by Beatrice for Arabella; many were only worn once and never again.

“You’re so considerate.” Cordelia took the bag from Arabella and casually placed it on a cabinet.

“What brought you here all of a sudden?” Dorian glanced at the bag in Arabella’s hand, and his expression turning serious.

welling up with tears, and said in an aggrieved tone, “I know you just found my sister and you want to spend more time with her. I understand if you don’t want to

in tears, as if someone had mistreated her. Wasn’t she the one

“What manners to teach? Vivienne’s manners are just fine; she doesn’t need anyone to teach her. She’s not marrying into

ha!” Vivienne couldn’t help but laugh at Dorian’s comment. Dorian sure had a sense

as she lowered her head and bit her lip, “Dad, that’s not what I meant.

she looks down

couldn’t keep up her act, her hands clenching her skirt, hatred almost spewing from her

joke! He sure treated his biological

her reluctance to marry Percival, but Dorian had said

And now?–

call off this engagement. How come he wasn’t saying it wasn’t up to

gotten her back, and I’m not going to let her get married,” Dorian said seriously, “Go

Beatrice was thinking. He might have listened to her in the past, but on the matter of Vivienne’s marriage, he would

“You don’t want the Hawthorn family to be in trouble, do you? This is the result of

slightly lifted her eyes, her red lips curled into a smile, “Yes, I don’t want to get married.

girl of Havenwood, she had made great achievements in various fields, and now she was an honor student, her future bright. Why would she ruin it by marrying that disabled man?