The Million-Dollar Heart

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The next day. Dorian took another sick day from work, knowing full well Beatrice’s character and anticipating that things wouldn’t go smoothly. So, he planned to spend the entire day dealing with this issue.

Vivienne didn’t have classes that day, so she came along.

As Dorian’s wife, Cordelia naturally tagged along as well.

After dropping Thaddeus off at school, they headed straight to Hawthorn Mansion.

Just as Michael was about to ring Dorian, they showed up.

He took a glance at Dorian, asking, “Got the stuff?”

“Yeah” Dorian responded calmly, “When’s the lawyer coming?”

“He’s on his way about fifteen minutes,” Michael said.

Dorian nodded without further comment.

The Hawthorn family kept quiet, the mansion was eerily silent.

Beatrice sat at the head of the table, shooting a murky glance at Dorian before closing her eyes. Nobody offered to pour water for Dorian’s family.

Dorian didn’t mind, the three of them sat quietly.

The lawyer arrived earlier than expected, taking only ten minutes.

When the lawyer arrived, Dorian stood up first, “Let’s get started.”

Beatrice opened her eyes and calmly said, “First, show me the goods!”

Dorian presented the

skimmed through the formula, frowning, “Just one formula? Are you so

didn’t change. “Evelyn only left me this one

won’t do!” Beatrice barked, “You think one formula can settle the

mother, but you haven’t raised me properly. To you, I’m just a tool. You favored my two brothers, I have nothing to say about that I didn’t come here today

a Hawthorn and you want to sell the formula to outsiders? Don’t you have

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with you all. I’m not associated with the Hawthorn family

clutching her chest, was left

and asked Dorian coldly, ‘Dorian, are you sure about this? Leaving the

decision I ever made was leaving

Michael

want Dorian to

affection for Dorian, but because they knew he had more

them she’d convinced Arabella to win over Percival’s

around, Arabella’s chances of success

stubbornness was really

the formula into her pocket, saying coldly, “I’ve got the formula now, and I won’t give it back. Unless you bring out a new one, you won’t be able to cut ties with the

how important

had used a few formulas to elevate the

family to its former glory. But what she sought wasn’t the Hawthorn family’s prominence in Havenwood, but their status in

she even wanted

ambitions had always been big, and she would stop at nothing to achieve

one son

willing

would react this way, he scoffed, “Mom,

you’d keep the formula. Do you really think im a

had a bad feeling,

missing two crucial ingredients. Without

said with a

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of this on their

thought this was the safest way, so he altered the formula on

would keep her word for once, but it seemed he really shouldn’t have expected anything from