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.

you want to spend more time with her. I understand if

in tears, as if someone had mistreated her. Wasn’t she the one who looked down on them as foster parents

she doesn’t need anyone to teach her.

help but laugh at Dorian’s comment. Dorian

her head and bit her lip, “Dad, that’s not what I

calling off the engagement with the Ellington family. Since she looks down on

keep up her act, her hands clenching her skirt, hatred almost spewing from her eyes.

treated his biological daughter

the Ellington family thought she was the one engaged to Percival, she had subtly expressed her reluctance to marry Percival, but Dorian had

And now?–

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

just gotten her back, and I’m not going to let her get married,” Dorian said seriously, “Go tell your granny that she should stop getting any ideas to marry Vivienne off.”

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

This is the result of our grandfather’s lifetime effort.

red lips curled into a smile, “Yes, I don’t want to get

Was she to marry that disabled Percival? She was the talented girl of Havenwood, she had made great achievements in various fields, and now she was an honor student, her future bright. Why