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 your
was holding. In the shaft of morning sunlight, the clear
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 wanted her to test
finally fixed on the potion in the syringe, "But why involve
the syringe to Vivienne,
of the attacker from the night before, she asked, "Vivienne, how much do you know about
the Perez and Martinez
she had some knowledge of, she
of the ancient warrior lineage
many secrets unknown even
was scant; without these individuals revealing
up without reason. She inspected the syringe in her hand and then said, "Aunt Willa, are
nodded. "I've spent years tracking down the F-Poison, but I've also learned
lesser-known families. At the pinnacle of their sphere, there are
including the Sheldons would
skills and abilities
Martinez, and Abernathy families, there remained the Grimshaw and Boyd
are in cahoots with F-Poison," Willa continued, pulling out a humanoid figure from under the
Leopold, following Vivienne and Percival, nearly jumped out of their skins at
daylights out of me. Vivienne's aunt is as fierce as she is does she really think she can just
was tough as
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