"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."

parked by the roadside, swiftly moving Isolde to the passenger

more word, and you're

under

Isolde was dropped off at home, where

Isolde got out of the car, she whispered to Percival, "Percival, don't tell me you never noticed how

scampered into Nathan's arms, urging her dad to whisk her

bemused by his son's anger and his daughter's smugness, totally clueless about the

contain her laughter any longer and burst

grew even

never imagined

back, Percival felt his manhood challenged for the first time in his life. He adjusted his tie and stepped out of the car, opening the back door to

the car, things

there, holding a thermos of soup Aurelia had made

you two

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

tried to appear calm as he

to Percival with a meaningful look. "The soup's freshly

double entendre was

turned and entered the

back to the

Mansion, Karen was tending to Jasper's

late again last night?" Karen felt

head vigorously. "No, no, of course not.

out a sigh. "Three forty-five AM. That's about when you actually went to sleep. Caught up in a

at the

got a bit of an upset stomach

a knowing look, pointing to the pastries. "You just had

in, she caught Jasper cajoling Karen, with Maddox enjoying

man?"

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