The Million-Dollar Heart

Scott suddenly grabbed Calista's neck, pulling her roughly toward him as his eyes blazed with a chilling intensity.

"No? Then you'll die for it!"

Calista's eyes reddened with fear, and tears streamed down her face instantly.

She knew Scott was serious-he would undoubtedly let her die.

Disgusted, Scott pushed Calista away and wiped his hands with a tissue. "Brody has bugged you. Get back to the lab tomorrow, work on that virus with TIC Research Institute, and don't screw up." Calista nodded in understanding. "Yes, I've got it."

Scott gave Calista a cold glance that carried the same annoyance as he felt with her mother.

Then, donning his mask, he stood up and left. He still had to track down Rowan and Ismene. Those two had betrayed the organization, and they would not be forgiven.

In the restaurant, Vivienne bit into a juicy steak, scrolling through messages on her phone.

[Vivienne, Timothy's fine. The Brooks family business is a bit messy, but Baron's in charge, so it's stable. Timothy's been auditing the company accounts lately.]

While chewing on her steak, Vivienne replied. [If Timothy's alright, then check on Carl. Make sure their whole family's safe.]

Matthew responded promptly. [On it.]

Vivienne was engrossed in her phone, oblivious to Percival's longing gaze from across the table.

It was not until Vivienne reached for the next dish that she noticed Percival's eager eyes.

"Mr. Wolf, do I look that appetizing to you?"

A shadow flickered in Percival's eyes, which seemed to linger on Vivienne. "Yes, you do look quite appetizing."

"Then eat up. You've got a match this afternoon." Vivienne forked some salad into her mouth.

Percival raised an eyebrow. "You know?"

Vivienne glanced up. "Snake lost their championship chance in the team match three years ago, but a month later, they came back and took six titles in a row. There's no way they did that by themselves." After all, as Hawk's top coach, Vivienne knew all about the history of her old rival, Snake.

with new blood compared to Hawk, still lagged in

in their prime, Bennett and his team could outplay many professional gamers

now and Hawk's lack of funds to attract promising

spend and nurture talent. With a mysterious coach joining three years ago, they

had been curious about this secretive coach. She had sent Matthew to

Percival, the pieces fell

imagined facing

his intentions, switching his finely cut steak onto Vivienne's plate and raising his juice

dressing from the corner of her mouth, her eyes sparkling mischievously. She raised

announced on the

Snake both made it to the group stage but

"Tell Aaron we'll see him in the finals-if you guys make it

information and said with a nonchalant smile, "Why don't you tell Aaron yourself? I saw you carrying Aaron back to the

knew about the tension between Kenneth and

now, Kenneth looked like Aaron's "little lackey," carrying

Kenneth, the young heir

was so enraged he

was a

let his brother get his

until we meet in the match-your whole team will be

from the qualifiers. Vivienne and Percival set up training tasks for their

for Percival to go to the hospital, he felt he

some people from

prone to

realize I was

Can it spare my granddaughters any suffering? You're good for nothing but trouble. If your brother hadn't let it slip, I'd still be in the dark about my dear

pounding his cane, his eyes reddening with

breathe too loud while

didn't know better, they'd think the Perez family is cursed, always losing

heart ached for his granddaughters, and his thoughts turned to his

thought of something happening to