The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 548

Percival reached out and swiped a finger through the frosting, popping it directly into his mouth.

The next instant, his face contorted in agony, an expression of pain so intense it had never before graced his features.

"Is it poisoned?" Vivienne yelled out, alarm knitting her brow.

Percival waved her off, steadying himself on her knee. "It's just... incredibly bitter."

Vivienne was speechless.

"Bitter? Really?" She dared a taste herself, almost letting her lifelong love affair with strawberry shortcake plummet to rock bottom.

It was supposed to be frosting - sweet, indulgent frosting.

Why on earth was it so bitter?

A thought struck Vivienne. "Tastes like something my mom made."

Her words hung in the air, and she and Percival paused, a sudden realization dawning on them.

Slowly, they lifted their eyes to meet, and their gazes converged with silent understanding.

The cake before them indeed bore the mark of Karen's handiwork.

The pair sat in stunned silence, neither willing to voice the conclusion forming in their minds. Yet, all the strange occurrences of recent days seemed to be pointing inexorably in one direction. After a while, Vivienne shook her head. "I've never had such a terrible strawberry shortcake."

Percival unveiled a slice of strawberry shortcake he had brought and fed it to Vivienne. "Try this one; it's sweet."

A chuckle escaped Vivienne's lips, her eyes inadvertently flickering to the bitter disappointment that was the other cake.

patting her

invitations, laying them before Vivienne. "Take a

up the invites, glancing over them with a smile. "The director wants to see me?

the party and extended the invitation to Vivienne and Percival, they were not

but a pretext for him to see

already anticipating her answer

course, we're going.

Vivienne and Percival arrived in

at the door. Upon seeing

trying to call with no luck," Melissa said warmly as she reached out and took Vivienne's

loved one's return had clearly lifted Melissa's spirits; her smile was even brighter than

in Sea City for a while, had my phone off," Vivienne responded with a light laugh, then turned to Ashley. "Fully

the accident, Vivienne had saved the girl and had not followed up, confident there was

nodded. "Yes, completely.

to Carl?"

had not been so stubborn and thrown away her helmet, Carl might not have ended up protecting her and getting injured in

life, we managed to save him, but the doctors say he suffered brain damage. He might be

supposed to be recovering; she had performed

have

Where is Carl

her sooner? With timely notice, Carl would not be in this condition. Melissa tried to soothe Vivienne, "We wanted to tell you, but... we can't keep

family, aren't we? How can

sense of resignation. After all, her relationship with the Brooks family would never be as open and straightforward as

Brooks family felt the same; there was a mutual sense of

it's hard for us to keep coming

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