The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 384

Scott had mulled over the idea of bringing Brody into the fold more than once, but the folks he had sent out to extend the olive branch had all met untimely ends, and a few had even vanished without a trace, their bones yet to be found.

Those in the know about Brody understood one thing clearly: He was not beholden to any organization. It all hinged on whether he was interested, and no one could force his hand to save or snuff a life. Calista sucked in a sharp breath, the memory of Brody's brutal methods during her treatment sending a shiver down her spine.

Scott exhaled slowly. "You should head back. Get the job done as soon as you can. Once you're back with the Brooks family, don't breathe a word of seeing me. You know what's at stake."

"Yes, I understand." Calista quickly rose, snatching her purse and scurrying out the door.

The room lapsed into a moment of silence as Scott leaned back on the couch, a frown creasing his forehead.

He had overplayed his cards this time.

Vivienne had played him like a fiddle.

The lab had been a pet project of the boss, meticulously overseen to completion. Neither sensor probes nor thermal imagers could detect an exit.

Vivienne had been calm, deliberately cryptic.

And with his cover blown, he had mistakenly thought the lab's location had been compromised.

To think he had actually led Vivienne and Percival straight to the lab.

What a blunder.

Scott chuckled wryly, a shade of melancholy crossing his face as he murmured, "As expected from your daughter, Karen."

At Percival's private clinic, Vivienne treated two children whose lives had been hung by a thread.

Thankfully, they were regaining vitality, and their hearts were beginning to regenerate.

close observation over the next few

children's parents had been located and were en

other?" Leopold peered through the glass of

his head. "Vivienne, you must've struck

man and a woman

pair-Vivienne and the

in sync," Percival said, his arm around Vivienne's waist. She looked every bit the intelligent beauty in her white lab coat, her hair pinned up in a bun, loose strands framing her face. She was

approached. "Percival, the

"Yasmine, Natalia."

female voice echoed from

woman in her mid-thirties,

We need to be

than Yuri Perez, the fourth son of the old man Jasper, who had recently bought

be Vivienne, hello. I'm Yuri, and we're the children's parents," Yuri said as he supported Zelda, politeness in his eyes despite

children are here. Have a look, but they can't leave just yet.

aside to let Yuri and Zelda see their

medical report she had not yet passed on.

could not bear to see

Natalia, I'm so sorry. It's all my fault." Zelda's

caught her. "Zelda, it's not your fault. Please, don't

the children's condition was stable and no longer required her constant attention. Outside the hospital, Percival's expression

seen that Yuri somewhere before. He looks

"I thought I was the only

if she had known him

someone called out Vivienne's name

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