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?"
followed closely behind her. "What's that
was holding. In the shaft of morning sunlight, the clear liquid in the
if she were merely asleep. "I can tell their target
drugs?" Vivienne's gaze finally fixed on the potion in the syringe, "But why involve my
the syringe to Vivienne, her
the night before, she asked, "Vivienne, how much do you know about the ancient
that, Vivienne paused, "Apart from the Perez and Martinez
knowledge of, she turned to Percival, "Mr.
he shook his head slowly. "I only knew of the ancient warrior lineage through the Abernathy
secrets
scant; without these individuals revealing themselves, they might as well be any ordinary
inspected the syringe in her hand and then said, "Aunt Willa, are you suggesting that the attack on my mother is related to the
Willa nodded. "I've spent years tracking down the F-Poison, but I've also learned a
lesser-known families. At the
Sheldons would
skills and
Martinez, and Abernathy families, there
out a humanoid figure from under the bed, "but whoever uses
Leopold, following Vivienne and Percival, nearly jumped out of their skins at Willa's nonchalant
Vivienne's aunt is as fierce as she is does she really think she can just whip out something like this without warning?" Thomas had
was tough as
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