The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 669

Vivienne sat up straight, her gaze cool and calculating. "Spill it, what's the deal with you and F-Poison? And besides Gillian, who else is in on it?" Mara hadn't expected Vivienne to know even about Gillian. It was clear she wouldn't be leaving until she came clean.

She dropped to her knees, her voice a mix of desperation and fear. "Percival, Vivienne, I didn't mean to betray you all. I had my reasons!"

Vivienne spared her a disinterested glance, motioning for her to continue.

"My brother, Huxley, he's been taken by F-Poison to M State. I had no choice but to save Huxley's life; I had to do as they said. They already killed my mom. I didn't dare disobey!"

It was a predictable story for Vivienne.

Only two people could exert such leverage over Mara - her brother, Huxley, and her mother, Nancy. Even if she wanted to disregard the lives of her own family, she had to consider her own skin. "What did they promise you in return?" Vivienne pressed.

Mara wiped away a tear, her voice trembling. "Boss said if I turned Aaron to her side, I could rebuild the Boyd legacy, claim back all of the Boyd family fortune, and they'd help me get my revenge... So I..." Vivienne almost laughed.

Even if Mara regained every last cent of the Boyd fortune, what then? Did she really believe she had the power to restore her family's name?

Vivienne was not looking down on Mara. Mara's lack of capabilities was a known fact.

"When you say 'Boss', are you referring to F-Poison?" Vivienne prodded.

Mara shook her head. "I don't know who you're talking about. All I know is Boss looks just like Gillian. They took us both. Gillian resisted at first, but Boss pinned her with a silver needle, leaving her incontinent and vomiting blood until she called her 'Boss'.

My mom was killed then, too, skinned alive. I was terrified. They took Huxley. That's why I agreed to work for her."

was indeed referring

the last time you saw F-Poison?" Vivienne

where I met Aaron. She's the one who gave me the

fists, vexed at how

café's surveillance. There was F-Poison. But as she

for ages, always losing her at

F-Poison were easy to catch, they wouldn't have been

couch and asked, "So, you've only seen F-Poison once this

say you're going on the lam. Got it?" Mara looked bewildered. "What about me? Are you going

tongue. "Hadn't thought about it. Let's fix your face

face brightened. "You'll treat

I have experiments to conduct, and I can't have you disrupting them. No

handed

the pain worse than any she had known before. The others ignored

Vivienne watched, satisfied.

be easy to let Mara die, but her

while, Vivienne settled into

pain subsided, Vivienne stirred. "How's the

her in

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