The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 626

Vivienne pushed open the heavy iron gate, rubbing her arms.

Though the sun was shining bright outside, the place seemed to cast a chilling shadow over everything.

"Mom, Grandpa, are you sure you don't need me to come with you?" Vivienne asked.

Jasper shook his head. "No need, sweetheart. Your mother and I can handle this. You just wait here, okay?"

Vivienne nodded, watching Karen and Jasper disappear through the doorway.

She settled back into the car and began to nibble on a strawberry cheesecake.

As Karen pushed open the door, a nauseating stench hit her full force.

The person inside, hearing the noise, slowly turned her head.

Her hair was a tangled mess, unwashed for days.

Stains marred her clothes, and her bare feet were caked in dirt.

The source of the foul smell was clear-it emanated from her.

Jasper sighed deeply at the sight. "Diana..."

The person trapped here was, indeed, Diana!

After the cliff side explosion, Diana had been rushed to the hospital. Once she survived, the Perez family had locked her away here.

The villa might have looked like a luxury home, but it was more akin to a prison cell.

It had everything-a complete set of furniture.

darkness turned the spacious abode into

and

of sunlight, not even the heat of summer

here, with only the torment of stillness, existing was worse than

not hear anything outside her darkness. She relied on touch to find something to eat when hunger struck. The

slowly stood up, mouth agape, but no sound

blankly at Karen

them, screaming, "I

her back, protecting her

just how deep Diana's

nothing to say. I've raised you all these years, but our bond is broken. I can never forgive you. Stay here and fend for

hand,

desire to engage with

it all. He had truly loved Diana

relationship had to be

to leave, Diana's eerie laughter filled the room, reminiscent of a deranged spirit from

Ha, you talk to

prosperity to the Perez family? Or that this adopted daughter would bring blessings to your

spare me your righteousness! You're nothing but a hypocrite! You adopted me with ulterior motives,

is that I didn't finish you off that day. If I had, there would be no Vivienne, and

one last look, then

rumors she overheard. Many couldn't understand why I adopted Diana and Willa, especially with so many kids at home. Rumors spread, and I thought

you adopt her in the

I initially planned to send her to an orphanage and support her

threads of fate entwined. "I don't remember how I

of regret had no place in Karen's world. Even picking up a proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing

I possibly become

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