The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 351

Chapter 351

Jeffrey’s eyes bulged in disbelief, and for a long moment, he struggled to process what he had just heard.

After a brief pause, he snapped back to reality and roared at Fiona Ellington, “Are you out of your mind? Ten billion dollars to them? Do we look like we’re running a charity here?”

With ten billion dollars, you could open a string of world–class art galleries! He thought.

Fiona must have lost her marbles by giving out such an astronomical number.

Fiona shot him an icy glance before turning to Vivienne and Percival, “Give me an account number. I’ll transfer the funds to you!”

She wasn’t offering this fortune for Jeffrey’s sake, but to keep Percival and Vivienne from dismantling the other art galleries.

Some of the galleries Jeffrey had established were a front for under–the–table dealings, which were secrets that outsiders must never uncover. It was a network she had painstakingly built, hidden from her entire family.

Even Jeffrey, the supposed head, was clueless about it.

If these secrets were ever exposed, she’d stand to lose up to thirty billion dollars.

When weighed against ten billion, it was a no–brainer. She had to protect those assets.

And Fiona didn’t buy for a second that Percival could go after her family without a reason.

Mr. Percy’s stature alone had put him at the zenith of power; he wouldn’t bat an eyelid at a few art galleries, let alone a few hundred billion

Yet, he was insistent on tearing down the galleries. She suspected he knew something.

It seemed Percival had to go. His very existence was the most significant threat to her.

With Percival around, the inheritance wouldn’t fall into her hands even if the old man died. Not to mention that Richard Ellington was still alive

the other Ellington nonentities wouldn’t stand a chance against

eyebrow and her

promptly provided her account

the latest!” Fiona declared confidently. It seemed that she was not the least

Vivienne nodded, “Agreed”

to the National Gallery’s secretary, and soon after, the team that had

billion dollars. He stormed off, neglecting the gallery’s guests. He had to get back and convince his parents not to

leave after she she nodded to Percival and Vivienne

too.

May I purchase that painting from you?”

see an elderly man leaning on a cane; his hair was almost entirely white with just a few strands of black remaining.

to be in his seventies, dressed modestly but exuding a palpable authority. His aged, cloudy eyes

responding. “This painting is

replied, “but you wouldn’t sell the original,

and nodded, “Exactly!”

feels familiar to me I’d like to buy it to help find her,” the old man disclosed without reservation. “I hope you will selit

to me

looked up. “You recognize the

was merely a figure from the back, and only someone who knew the

mole behind her ear, the old man recounted his voice was tinged with a hint of melancholy “My lost daughter has

grip on the painting tightened. “Your daughter?

years without a trace. I heard the might have come to Rivenwood recently, so

was taken

It was a beautiful name

named Sasha, yet the name felt eerily

Chapter.

But I heard you say the person

could finish, Vivienne

his words, the old man apologized, “I’m sorry to

softly, her thoughts evidently

may be so bold, the mole behind your mother’s ear is in the exact spot as my daughter’s. May I ask if you know much about your maternal grandparents?”

voice suddenly turned cold, “are

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