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.

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

the Hawthorn family was loaded, the Ellington family would still

my family right in my face? Do you think all my

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but 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

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

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we have

speak up at this moment because she had previously left a bad impression on Percival. She needed

million dollars was too

the 10 million dollars, so she could

you?” Percival’s eyes flashed as he radiated a chilling aura. “A foster daughter spouting nonsense at the real Hawthorn family daughter’s engagement

hurtful. I may be a foster daughter of the Hawthorn family, but I see them as my own. Now that the Hawthorn family is damaged, of course I

when people mentioned her status as a foster daughter. She was clearly very outstanding. Why did she have to be ridiculed just because she

don’t argue with dogs.”

was so angry that her face turned purple and her lips

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

video

investment was

okay if the dowry is given to Dorian?”

was a bit taken

were people who

now that the Ellington family had no intention

for a while and then said, “Vivienne didn’t grow up in the Hawthorn family. We don’t have a deep bond. I understand it’s reasonable not to give me the dowry. But I’m still her grandmother, and the decision-making power of this

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 the 10-million-dollar dowry so that your father won’t need to

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future.”

frowned. Beatrice was really playing dirty to get what

give up her