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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