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 a

no lights, no windows, and even the

even the heat

only the torment of stillness, existing

could not hear anything outside her darkness. She relied on touch

agape, but no

blankly at Karen

at them, screaming, "I am the only daughter of the Perez

swiftly pushed her back, protecting

realizing just how deep

raised you all these years, but our bond is broken. I can never forgive you. Stay here and

hand,

desire to engage with

was merely to support Jasper in putting an end to it all.

their relationship had to be

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

Ha, you talk to me about

prosperity to the

adopted me with ulterior motives, and now you

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

back, giving Diana one last look, then silently walked

why I adopted Diana and Willa, especially with so many

you adopt her in the

was the child of one of my men. Her parents died in the line of duty, and I initially planned to send her to an orphanage and

realizing how the threads of fate entwined. "I don't remember how I felt back then, but

concept of regret had no place in Karen's world. Even picking up a proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing did not faze her. After all, she had

I possibly become

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