The following day, Vivienne was still curled up in Percival's arms, sleeping like a log.

Trending topics about her were skyrocketing, with a mix of comments from fans and possibly paid trolls sprawling below the headlines.

[Hawthorn Family Heiress Rampage]

[Vivienne Bullying]

A uniform wave of negative press.

[Who is this Vivienne? Never heard of her. How dare she mess with our sweet Ramona?]

[Poor Ramona, what is her team doing? They set her up with this no-name brand, and she gets harassed at the party!]

[Hawthorn family perfume? Our Ramona was doing them a favor representing them, and this is how they repay her!]

Vivienne was jolted awake by the insistent ringing of her phone.

Willa's voice came through, and Vivienne muffled by sleep, "What's up, Aunt Willa?"

"Vivienne, come to the hospital. Someone broke in last night."

Vivienne and Percival rushed to the hospital in record time. In the ward, Willa was already seated by Karen's bedside waiting for them.

Vivienne, usually composed, looked unusually serious. Without waiting for Willa to speak, she asked, "What happened?"

closely behind her. "What's that in

syringe Willa was holding. In the shaft of morning sunlight,

away but glanced at Karen, who looked as peaceful as if she were merely asleep. "I can tell their target was specific. They weren't trying to kill your mother; they

finally fixed on the potion in the syringe,

and handed the syringe to

asked, "Vivienne, how much do you know about the ancient warrior

Perez and

knowledge of, she turned to Percival, "Mr. Wolf, what

shook his head slowly. "I only knew of the ancient warrior lineage through the Abernathy family, nothing more than you've

legacies, many secrets unknown even

scant; without these individuals revealing themselves, they might as well

reason. She inspected the syringe in her hand and then said, "Aunt Willa,

spent years tracking down the F-Poison, but I've also learned a lot about the ancient

not waste time on the lesser-known families. At the pinnacle of their sphere, there are

course, including the Sheldons would make it

skills

the Perez, Martinez, and Abernathy families, there remained

continued, pulling out a humanoid figure from under the bed, "but whoever uses androids

and Leopold, following Vivienne and Percival, nearly jumped out of

is does she really think

tough

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