The Million-Dollar Heart

Leopold could not believe it as the call abruptly ended.

Griffin hung up on him!

This was not normal!

Even Vivienne was taken aback. She remembered quite vividly what Griffin was like the last time they met.

But this time, it was a complete turnaround.

Taking a deep breath, Leopold joined Vivienne and Percival on their way to the Runxing Community.

In the residential area.

Griffin was waiting at the front door. As soon as she saw Vivienne, she greeted her warmly, "Vivienne, long time no see."

"It has been a while," Vivienne greeted back.

"Come on in," Griffin said as she opened the door. "It's just me at home."

Vivienne and Percival walked in side by side, followed closely by Anna.

Just as Leopold was about to follow them inside, Griffin suddenly shut the door and said sternly, "Didn't you hear me? It's just me at home. You think you can just barge into a lady's private space?" Leopold was almost speechless. He incredulously pointed at Percival. "What about him?"

"He's Vivienne's fiancé, practically family. Of course, he can come in," Griffin said, raising an eyebrow at Leopold. "And you are?"

With a thud, the door closed, leaving Leopold alone in the chilling wind.

Griffin's place was not like the typical girl's house. It had an old-fashioned charm, with mahogany furniture and a table in the center of the living room.

The only out-of-place item was a Husky figurine on the tea table.

Vivienne sat down without concern for why Leopold could not come in and got straight to the point, "Griffin, we're here because we need your help with something." As Griffin skillfully poured tea for everyone, she asked, "What's up?"

Percival pulled out a model of a cutting-edge bomb, explaining, "We need to figure out the workings and structure of this bomb and develop a detector for it. Interested?" Griffin's eyes lit up.

weapons enthusiast and expert, she was

new bomb making the rounds

Vivienne nodded. "Yes."

glanced at Griffin and added,

model closely, turning it over in her hands. "Of course I am. This thing, it stole one

idea?" Vivienne was

ago. But then my computer got hacked, and I

paper; indeed, the content matched certain features of the

you come across this?"

Vivienne. I agree to work with you on this, but I have one condition, a non-negotiable. Agree

deny

slyly.

was taken aback.

Vivienne cut her

outside, he would have said, "Vivienne, did you just sell me out

Then they quickly moved on to discuss their

at Griffin's house, the partnership was settled, and

in the car the whole time, his mind a whirl of

today. And what was

he would marry her in

the old man disagreed,

thought, he saw Vivienne, Percival, and Anna enter the

to Vivienne. "Did

him and simply replied,

it was not that simple, "Did she make some outrageous demand? Did she give you guys a hard time?" Leopold pressed

just on the cheek. I didn't even know what getting married meant. Besides, the old man

off his

and Percival looked at him as if

full of

turned to Anna. "Anna,

saying, "Griffin did make a condition, and indeed, it

to marry me,

temples. "Griffin's condition is that you must be utterly out of sight during the research. You can't even deliver documents. To put it bluntly, you need to disappear from our lives for a while." Leopold nearly bit off his tongue in