The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 35

Beatrice instantly started looking for Vivienne and Percival but saw no sign of them. Her forehead scrunched up in worry. The medicine meant for Vivienne was ingested by Joseph instead. Vivienne and Percival were supposed to be in this room, but now it was occupied by Joseph and a nanny. Beatrice had seen too much in her lifetime and immediately suspected Vivienne was behind this.

“That little bitch!” Beatrice fumed.

“Grandma, let’s not get heated up, we need to sort this out first!” Arabella was equally livid.

She had no idea how Vivienne discovered the aphrodisiac in her drink, let alone why, Joseph ended up taking the drug she made. But she had no time to dwell on that, she just wanted to get the current situation under control.

Beatrice knew this wasn’t the time to investigate these issues. She glanced at the gàwping guests, feeling utterly humiliated. She instructed Arabella, “Since you made the drug, give Joseph the antidote.”

Arabella nodded, she was thinking the same.

She summoned two security guards to bring Joseph down. Then, she pretended to examine him and slipped him the antidote when no one was watching.

But Joseph showed no sign of improvement, the antidote didn’t work!

Arabella’s brow furrowed instantly, what was going on? Why wasn’t her antidote working? She remembered that Vivienne had some medical skills. Did Vivienne change her drug? That’s just impossible!

Vivienne was just a village girl from Emerald Mountain. Even if she had some medical knowledge, it was elementary at best. She must have lucked out when she cured Isolde. She couldn’t possibly know how to make aphrodisiac. Could it be Percival? It must be him. He’s a cripple, couldn’t get a wife, so he planned to drug Vivienne. But he didn’t expect Joseph to take it instead.

than before. He pushed the security guards aside and lunged at the nanny again, creating another indecent scene. Everyone started to feel awkward

looked at Arabella, questioning her

up and announced loud enough for everyone to hear, “Grandma, Joseph

immediately caught on to Arabella’s intentions and played

checked, he’s taken a very potent aphrodisiac. It can only

roared, “Who would do such a

this room just now, how did it end up being–Joseph? And Joseph’s room is upstairs. Even if he wanted to have sex with the nanny, he would have chosen a more secluded spot. Why here? It only increases the chance of being

strong, making sure everyone could hear the

reality, such a scandal should

it, some even recording the incident. It

prove that Joseph was framed and that no one from the Hawthorn family

believe for a second that Joseph and the nanny had an illicit relationship.

an affair, he would have chosen a beautiful woman with a great body,

special about this nanny?

the crowd nodded, thinking it made

be so careless when having an

definitely more to this story.

raised her voice, “Vivienne

yelled, “Your precious daughter framed Joseph to avoid

“Mom! We haven’t figured out what happened yet, how can you be so

room. But then it

speaking, a cold voice came from behind them, “Are you

Vivienne pushing Percival towards them.

sidelines, fully aware of the true intention behind all this drama an attempt to frame Vivienne and Percival that backfired. But they kept their thoughts to themselves, worried about. Percival’s condition.