Vivienne's fingers froze atop her phone screen, Griffin's contact highlighted. The sudden pause was punctuated by a sense of déjà vu.
A café?
Why did that sound so hauntingly familiar?
She pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration. "How could I have forgotten about this?"
Meanwhile, in a café, Victoria perched in a reserved booth, her gaze drifting over the bustling crowd through the panoramic windows.
Irritation flickered in her eyes.
Vivienne!
She really had some nerve!
Twice now!
That wretched woman had stood her up twice!
Calls unanswered, texts ignored, just like she had vanished off the face of the earth. How could Richard have ever approved of such a granddaughter-in-law, bringing shame to the Ellington name?
And Percival!
Birds of a feather indeed. Both just as unreliable as the other!
Victoria gnashed her teeth on the freshly served scones as if she were biting into Vivienne and Percival, those two good-for-nothings. "Let's go find War God! Damn it, I refuse to believe I can't handle the two o you!"
at Northway City, within the Grimshaw estate-a structure reminiscent of a middle-age castle-Oliver Grimshaw
snatched a cup from the desk and hurled it at Isaac's forehead. "Useless! Can't even handle a simple
"Please, forgive me, Patriarch!"
modern era, the
a young woman could be so formidable. I suspect she
a twenty-something-year-old possibly be? Go on, inquire about it. See if there's a family with such a prodigy. Wouldn't those old coots be parading her around
as one of the five major families, had
possibly boast to have such a talent? And if they did, he'd have
to receive your punishment. I'll give you one more chance. Whatever it takes, that bio-weapon
emphatically. "If fate has placed this
...
day later, Victoria was still fuming over being
for the sake of my mother who once aided you, could you please convey a message to the Ellingtons? Vivienne and Percival have gone too far! They're
impulsive. Vivienne and Percival are both shrewd; you've had past issues with them. It's no
bristled. "But they agreed, then went back on their word. It's
his
girl was definitely capable of
gone senile; I just
Arthur's gaze darkened momentarily.
was indeed a
and the rest had chosen her
and helping you covertly deal
want with that weapon, I can't intervene. You want
were
her as a comatose patient after birthing his
heritage, Victoria had been searching for her
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