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 texted

[Came up empty. You?]

[Hook, line, and sinker.]

Vivienne's cunning expression from those words - like a

the house of the Ellington family's

get out of bed yet," Heloise said,

their imagination. A

it were not for the timely hospital visit, he

"I'm going

he was in agony. It was better to move a

waved her off impatiently. "Never mind me. What about Fiona? Why was she kicked

just throw her out of the company?" "I told you, I

hiding all day? Think you can get back into the company that way? Come out and figure out

of the Ellington family's second branch, with half their savings

that she was out, they had lost a significant

room, ignoring her parents' and Jeffrey's complaints below.

concern. It was her clandestine dealings that weighed on her

needed the Ellington Group's resources and

her

If she failed to

an unknown number on her phone. "How's it

hands, being moved as you

eye. I'll find a way

call, Fiona rubbed her fingertips, her usually

an unfamiliar

she answered, "Who's

replied,

Fiona paused.

Calista?

close, but Fiona had heard

medicine, the cheap daughter of the

arrest, Calista had also become reclusive. Why was she calling

asked,

through. "Got time

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