The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 759

"Julian!"

"Juli..."

Four voices rang out in unison.

Sadie squeezed out a feeble note from her throat, her half-closed eyes widening ever so slightly.

She wasn't faring much better than Julian, and it was a miracle she had held on this long. But now, seeing her husband collapsed, she couldn't catch her breath. Her legs gave way, and she, too, started to fall! Thankfully, Percival and Vivienne were quick to catch them.

Otherwise, with the slick floors of the police station, the elderly couple would've surely broken bones!

Kaitlyn's eyes were ablaze with fury, her dry tears sticking to the corners of her eyes, causing a stinging pain, "Rafferty, my in-laws haven't been convicted yet. Are you trying to make this a case of death without evidence?!"

Rafferty was also taken aback. He wasn't the one who had arrested them; he had only checked in on them during a shift change.

Back then, the elderly couple was sitting quietly in the holding cell, clearly frightened, but otherwise in good spirits. How did things turn so dire so quickly?

His sharp, eagle-like gaze turned to the junior officer beside him, his eyes filled with inquiry, "What's going on here?!"

"I... I don't know," stammered the junior officer, shivering.

Sure, he usually hung around the deputy chief, but everyone knew about Rafferty's uncompromising integrity. If Rafferty found out that he had deliberately lowered the air conditioning to make the suspects uncomfortable, his career here would be over!

some direction. But ever since

night, her makeup was impeccable,

thought, "Seriously? You're swooning over a guy at a time like

You've been on duty at the holding cell all this time. If you don't know, should I personally check the surveillance footage?" Vivienne's hands moved away from the old couple's wrists, her icy stare shifting from the junior officer to Sophie and then back to Rafferty.

"And who might this grandma be? She's capable of taking people out of your station? I need an explanation for

this person? No manners

even thirty, how

sight of Sophie, the

this girl even know what she

why is everyone interjecting here? You've all conspired with Rafferty, trying to get this old man out, haven't you?!" Zinnia was quicker on the uptake than

just you wait, I won't let this go! This old

Zinnia's lead, "Captain Rafferty, you just wait! Tomorrow I'm reporting you to the higher-ups for collusion! Just wait to be dismissed!" Vivienne glanced at

onto a bench, pulling out a small pill bottle, "Give them these pills for now. It's nothing serious, just the combination of their weak health and the cold temperature that made them

"Ms. Hawthorn, what joke is this?! The holding cell

for our

She squinted, following Sophie's

up with a smile at the sight of Vivienne, "What is it,

sprinkled with gold dust accentuated Percival's usually stern demeanor, giving him an alluring, almost otherworldly charm. Like a captivating demon from legend, he was

different circumstances, she would have pounced on her Mr. Wolf

that her first glimpse of him made

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