The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 80

“Of course I’d accept it!”

Beatrice was about to respond right away, but upon seeing Vivienne’s frosty gaze, she felt as if something had clogged her throat, and she couldn’t utter a single word.

“Vivienne! What’s all this about?” Joseph angrily questioned her. “She’s your grandmother. How could you talk to her like that?”

Vivienne slightly curled her lips, elegantly tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear before speaking slowly. “Joseph, if we were in a different place, I wouldn’t even bother talking to you with this much patience. Wanna give it a go?”

“You!” Joseph was left fuming and speechless.

That little imp, Vivienne, was yet again using the past to threaten him.

Whether she really had any evidence or not, he couldn’t take the risk.

Vivienne glanced indifferently at the Hawthorn family members and spoke in an icy tone, “I, Vivienne, have never acknowledged any connection to you, the Hawthorn family, except for Dorian and Cordelia. If you don’t get it, I don’t mind stirring up a buzz around the Hawthorn family again.”

Beatrice was taken aback. Vivienne knew too many secrets about the Hawthorns. They couldn’t let her blow things out of proportion.

Arabella spoke with a frozen expression. “We’re all family. Are you really going to take things this far? We’re your family, and the prosperity of the Hawthorn family is your prosperity. Accepting the dowry would elevate the Hawthorn family. Why are you trying to stop us from accepting it? You’re cutting off your own escape route. Do you get that?”

Vivienne smirked. “I don’t need to rely on anyone.”

She looked at Arabella as if she were looking at a fool.

current state of the Hawthorn family, even if they got a 10-million-dollar investment,

Hawthorn family was loaded, the Ellington family

you think all my family members are dead?” Percival suddenly spoke, his voice as cold

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she still held her head high. “Did I say something wrong? We’re discussing the dowry you’re giving to my sister. The Ellington family is a wealthy family in Rivenwood. Even if my father asks for $88,000 as a dowry,

was you who proposed to fulfill the marriage contract, and it was you who promised a 10-million-dollar dowry to the Hawthorn family,

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we have the

moment because she had previously

million dollars was too important for

couldn’t win Percival’s heart for now, nor could she get the 10 million dollars, so she could only hope to

eyes flashed as he radiated a chilling aura. “A foster daughter spouting nonsense at the real Hawthorn family daughter’s engagement party. Where does

Hawthorn family, but I see them as my own. Now that the Hawthorn family is damaged, of course I need to speak up. Are you saying that you

when people mentioned her status as a foster daughter. She was clearly very outstanding. Why did she have to be ridiculed just because she wasn’t

argue with dogs.” Percival

angry that her face turned purple and her

this, Beatrice changed her expression. “There’s no need to

calm down. If the video was exposed again, the Hawthorn family would become a

was the priority

it okay if the dowry is given to

was a

and Percival were people who wouldn’t back down

that the Ellington family had no intention of giving them

understand it’s reasonable not to give me the dowry. But I’m still her grandmother, and the decision-making power of this family is

at Vivienne. “Vivienne, I didn’t want to see things turn out this way today. I have my own dignity. The Hawthorn family really can’t hold on any longer. I have to find an investment. I know you hate me for how I treated your mother back in the day, but I’m still your grandmother. I hope you can ask the Ellington family for

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future.”

Beatrice was really playing dirty to get

up her