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
had remained calm, the first to notice the syringe Willa was holding. In the shaft of morning sunlight, the clear liquid in the white syringe
right away but glanced at Karen, who looked as peaceful as if she were merely asleep. "I can tell their target was specific.
fixed on the potion in the syringe, "But why
shook her head and handed the syringe
night before, she asked,
that, Vivienne paused, "Apart from the Perez and Martinez families, there's the Littleton and
had some knowledge of, she turned to Percival, "Mr. Wolf, what do
shook his head slowly. "I only knew of the ancient warrior lineage through the Abernathy family, nothing more than
legacies, many secrets unknown even to insiders like
was scant; without these individuals revealing themselves, they might as well be
then said, "Aunt Willa, are you suggesting that the
down the F-Poison, but I've also learned a lot about
the lesser-known families. At the pinnacle of their sphere,
including the Sheldons would make it
skills and
Abernathy families, there remained the Grimshaw
in cahoots with F-Poison," Willa continued, pulling out a humanoid figure from under the bed, "but
Percival, nearly jumped out of their skins
me. Vivienne's aunt is as fierce as she is does she really think she can just whip out something like this without
was tough as
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