The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 750

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!"

Grimshaw estate-a structure reminiscent of a middle-age castle-Oliver

snatched a cup from the desk and hurled it at Isaac's forehead. "Useless! Can't even handle a simple task,

"Please, forgive me, Patriarch!"

era, the Grimshaws

dropped to his knees, forehead pressed to the ground. "We underestimated the situation. We never anticipated a young woman could be so formidable. I suspect she might come

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 like a trophy by

one of the five major families, had no such

have such a talent? And if they did, he'd

I'll give you one more chance. Whatever it takes, that bio-weapon must be

the desk emphatically. "If fate has placed this opportunity before us, then it's destined to be

...

café in Rivenwood a day later, Victoria was

once aided you, could you please convey a message to the Ellingtons? Vivienne and Percival have gone too

tapping the tabletop intermittently. "You're too impulsive. Vivienne and Percival are both shrewd; you've had past issues

on their word. It's obvious they

neutral, though his opinion of Vivienne

girl was definitely capable

"Richard's gone senile; I just don't get his

Arthur's gaze darkened momentarily.

a little

chosen her

mother did help me, and helping you covertly deal with the Abernathys was the most I could

what the Grimshaws want with that weapon, I can't intervene. You want Vivienne's trust? That's on you. I'll expedite the

Abernathys were masters of

deceived Percival's aunt and concealed her as a comatose patient after birthing his

her true heritage, Victoria had been searching for her mother

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