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.

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 see me, but granny told me to come to

would be in tears, as if someone had mistreated

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

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

she looks down on Vivienne, then

her act, her hands clenching her skirt,

He sure treated his biological daughter

had subtly expressed her reluctance to marry Percival, but Dorian had said that it wasn’t up to him to call off the engagement, as it was

And now?–

came back, and Dorian was in a hurry to call off this engagement. How come he wasn’t saying it wasn’t up to him

married,” Dorian said seriously, “Go tell your granny that she should stop getting any ideas to marry Vivienne off.”

her in the past, but on the matter of Vivienne’s marriage, he would make no concessions. If anyone dared to have any designs on

be in trouble, do you? This is the result of

her red lips curled into

expression turning sour. Was she to marry that disabled Percival? She was the talented girl of Havenwood, she had made great