The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 776

Leopold and Matthew had just finished loading the Abernathy family into the van, including Cormac, when the stench inside hit them like a wave, almost driving them back out the door. But seeing Vivienne and the others frozen by the bedside, Leopold steeled himself and stepped inside.

The woman on the bed was a shadow of her former self, her hair tangled and matted like weeds upon the pillow. Her face was streaked with dirt, and it looked like the Abernathys hadn't bothered to clean her in ages. If it weren't for the faint rise and fall of her chest, Leopold might have mistaken her for a corpse.

Wait a minute!

Those features...

How come she looked a bit like Percival?

Realizing this, Leopold's pupils dilated, his finger pointing shakily at the woman on the bed.

Then he glanced at Percival, whose stony face was unreadable, and noticed the air around him growing colder and heavier. Leopold took a step back, feeling as if his throat had been seized. He couldn't manage to utter a complete sentence.

Finally, it was Vivienne who broke the silence. "Mr. Wolf, let's get her out of here first."

She was genuinely shocked. They had only come to fetch a witness back to Rivenwood, and here they were, stumbling upon the very person Percival had spent years searching for.

Mr. Wolf's aunt, the Ellington heiress-Holly Ellington!

"Gavin Abernathy!"

leaving their car in the darkness, save for the occasional flash of headlights that flickered before Vivienne's

seemed to crawl

hoarse, almost eerie in the pitch-black setting, yet Vivienne heaved a sigh of relief as she said, "Mr. Wolf, trust me, I will heal

up inside him toward Gavin and

heiress, she would be placed in an unknown hospital with professional care to at least keep her alive. But the reality was starkly different! In this remote village, there

covers, even he

now understood where that foul stench lingering around

soiled and stained blanket was Holly's withered body, wounds

that moment, Percival felt a murderous

sanity reminded him that those people were still useful. But the agony he felt for Holly and the hatred

himself to bury his head deeper into Vivienne's stomach, his clenched eyes hiding the torrent of

caressing his hair as a chill flashed in her eyes. "Mr. Wolf, the dead do not deserve our hatred." Matthew glanced up through the rear-view mirror at

couldn't recall the last time he had seen

warrior lineage was formidable, but was

they couldn't just hand their life over to the

phone rang then, and he glanced at the caller ID before saying, "Vivienne, it's

"Hand it over."

passed the phone

with anger, came through, "Young

has the Abernathy family done now?" Vivienne didn't need to

people dig up Mrs. Littleton's parents' graves. They've taken the ashes and

phone tightened as she inhaled deeply. "How is Kaitlyn

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