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.

over the next few days,

been located and were

images of each other?" Leopold peered through the glass of the

of his head. "Vivienne, you must've struck me

just plain dumb," A man and a woman said in

eyed the pair-Vivienne and the unwilling-to-admit-it Percival. "Alright, a duet

his arm around Vivienne's waist. She looked every bit the intelligent beauty in her white lab coat, her hair

then, Thomas approached. "Percival, the kids' parents have

"Yasmine, Natalia."

female voice

saw a woman in her mid-thirties, dressed simply yet

together. We

the fourth

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

a look, but they can't

let Yuri and Zelda see their

yet passed on. Revealing their suffering to their mother seemed too

to see a mother's

my fault." Zelda's tears streamed down

"Zelda, it's not your fault. Please,

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

feel like I've seen that Yuri somewhere before. He looks

thought I was the only

the first time she laid eyes on Yuri, she felt as if she had

they pondered this, someone called out Vivienne's name from behind. It

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