"You... you really are going to help me?" Mara looked at Vivienne, her eyes wide with disbelief. Vivienne nodded, "Yes."

"But you... you..." Mara stuttered, at a loss for words.

Even Cecilia hadn't expected Vivienne to consent. "Vivienne, you're really willing to help Mara?"

Vivienne affirmed. "Sure, but I have my conditions. I'm the Specter Healer; I don't work for free."

Mara knew it. Vivienne wasn't the type to offer help out of the goodness of her heart.

"I understand, but I'm broke right now. Can I write you an IOU and pay you back once I have the money?" Mara pleaded.

Vivienne smiled, her red lips lifting in a beguiling curve. "That's not what I'm asking for."

A shiver ran down Mara's spine as she locked eyes with Vivienne's smile. She felt like she had just fallen into a bottomless pit - a trap that could spell her doom! Leaving the hospital, Percival drove Isolde back home.

Isolde took every chance to stick close to Vivienne. "Vivienne, what was the deal you made with Mara back there?"

Vivienne scooped Isolde into her arms, meticulously parting her hair to craft a sweet hairstyle for the youngster.

"Little ones shouldn't pry."

Isolde sat still, leaning against Vivienne, her tiny shoulders pressed against her chest.

After a while, Isolde murmured, "Vivienne, you're really busty, you know."

Percival nearly choked on his own spit.

Unfazed, Vivienne continued her task while Percival's face turned a shade that would've given any artist's palette a run for its money.

"Kids shouldn't talk about such things," Percival cleared his throat.

Isolde scoffed. "Percival, why so prudish? I'm just saying she's got a great figure. It's just a fact."

brakes and parked by the roadside, swiftly

more word, and you're going to boarding

muttered under

home, where her father, Nathan, was

of the car, she whispered to Percival, "Percival, don't tell me you

arms, urging

his son's anger and his daughter's

her laughter any longer and burst into

face grew even redder. "Vivienne,

it. She had never imagined Percival could be so

to the laughter from the back, Percival felt his manhood challenged for the first time in his life. He adjusted his tie

car, things

holding a thermos of soup Aurelia had made for Vivienne,

maybe you two could

head hard on the roof. Without pausing to rub it, he

tried to appear calm as he faced

Percival with a meaningful look. "The soup's

was not

that, Nathan turned and entered the house,

was no going back to

Perez Mansion, Karen was tending to

late again last night?" Karen felt his pulse, and her brows

"No, no, of course not. You

about when you actually went to sleep. Caught up in a

lips, amazed at the accuracy of her

of an upset stomach and

knowing look, pointing to the pastries.

she caught Jasper cajoling

old man?" Vivienne

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