The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 633

An hour had passed before Mara finally stirred, a ghostly pallor on her face. Her voice was a weak whisper, barely there.

She had never felt so terrible in her life-it was like being on death's doorstep!

That Gillian had actually given her a bottle of sleeping pills, and here she had thought they were vitamins.

If only she had known, she would not have taken a single one!

"Mara, you're awake." Cecilia's voice carried a mixture of relief and worry, as if a great weight had been lifted from her heart upon seeing Mara's eyes open.

To underscore her feebleness, Mara coughed deliberately, a decision she instantly regretted as her stomach convulsed painfully.

"Auntie, what happened to me?" Mara's eyes brimmed with tears, but her pain was genuine.

Cecilia sat by the hospital bed, wiping away the tears streaking Mara's face. "Oh, you silly girl. Do you have any idea how close you came to never seeing me again?" Mara feigned shock, glancing down at her wrist as if seeing it anew, a look of realization crossing her face. "I... I'm sorry, Auntie. I just wasn't thinking straight."

"You really..." Cecilia held Mara's hand, her heart full of unsaid words.

Across the room, Percival sat brooding on the couch, his eyes stormy as the horizon's edge.

Vivienne, on the other hand, watched the scene with a certain amusement.

Such a promising talent, indeed.

Mara seemed to be cut from the same cloth as Gillian had been.

If she were to be signed and groomed properly, she might even outshine Kala!

Kala: Impossible, utterly impossible!

her palm, her mind

take Isolde back home? Everything's under control here. I'll stay with her."

her smile beaming at Mara. "It's been a

even she would have been

driven-Vivienne was

Mr. Wolf merely

appealing than

Since that was

out her IV and stumbled to her feet, only

for things to

if Percival did nothing and Isolde was too young to understand, at least Cecilia would

one

nearly laughed out loud but

her head, her eyes filled

"What are

barely suppressed mirth. He smiled,

pull this act again. Admitting your mistake is

from

scolded by a kid fresh out of elementary school was too

"Mara, Isolde is right. Get up,

apologize?" Mara screamed silently. Reluctantly, she climbed back onto her feet, and whether by design or not, she winced at a sudden pain in her face.

did Cecilia move to her side, helping Mara back into bed.

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