The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 422

Astrid fidgeted nervously beside Vivienne, apparently still wracked with guilt over the previous day's events.

Vivienne, unfazed, glanced at Astrid with eyes as soft as a strawberry cheesecake and stood up.

Astrid halted her with a call, "Vivienne."

Vivienne's lips curved into a smile, her bright eyes flashing with disinterest. "What is it?"

Astrid rose and approached her, lifting her shirt.

On her slender waist was a hideous black scar.

A knife wound, poisoned.

Astrid clenched her fist. "I got this on a mission when I fell into the enemy's trap. Now, I still suffer from the pain, especially when it rains, my whole body aches.

Vivienne, I'm not trying to gain your sympathy. I just want to tell you that we've sacrificed our lives to ensure that our organization can develop a defense against the biochemical weapons of rival nations.

So, on behalf of the organization and our country, I'm inviting you to join our fight!"

Vivienne's gaze fell on the scar on Astrid's waist.

It was clearly real.

She grasped Astrid's wrist and felt for her pulse.

The poison had been lurking in her body for years; she, indeed, had suffered greatly.

Vivienne casually took out a life-saving pill and popped it into Astrid's mouth. "This poison isn't hard to cure. Just come to me once a day."

After a pause, she added, "I'm quite interested in what you've said. I'll give it a try."

Astrid froze, surprised. "You mean you agree?"

Vivienne nodded slightly. "Yeah, but I'm out if your experiments don't meet my standards."

"Great. You'll find our experiments fascinating," Astrid said with a smile. "I'll notify the organization and see when they can take you to the lab." With that, Astrid went into her room.

Looking at her door, Vivienne let a sly smile creep onto her face.

her phone and

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[Hook, line, and sinker.]

almost see Vivienne's cunning expression from those words - like

house of the

can't get out of bed yet," Heloise

beyond their imagination. A mere toss had

were not for the timely hospital visit, he might have lost

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in agony.

me.

him. How could he just throw her out of the company?" "I told you, I should have joined

day? Think you can get back into the company that way? Come out and figure out how to ask

mainstay of the Ellington family's second branch, with half

that she was out, they had

her room, ignoring her parents' and Jeffrey's complaints below. She put on headphones,

ousted from the company was not her most pressing concern. It was her

business was not just in the art galleries; she also needed the Ellington

was her

signed agreements. If she failed to deliver

dialed an unknown number on

still in our hands, being

eye. I'll find

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unfamiliar number

hesitating, she

replied, "Ms.,

Fiona paused.

Calista?

but Fiona had heard of Calista in

cheap daughter

arrest, Calista had also become reclusive. Why was she

asked,

cheerful voice came through. "Got time

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