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!"

that flickered

to crawl

relief as she said, "Mr. Wolf, trust me, I will heal your aunt." Percival's grim expression softened slightly. He shifted, leaning his head against Vivienne's shoulder. "Vivienne, I

control the hatred bubbling up inside him

an unknown hospital with professional care to at least keep her alive. But the reality

had pulled back the covers, even he couldn't suppress the rising

now understood where that foul stench lingering around the Abernathy

Holly's withered body, wounds festering

moment, Percival felt a

shred of his sanity reminded him that those people were still useful. But the agony he

bury his head deeper into Vivienne's stomach, his clenched eyes hiding the

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

last time he had seen

was formidable, but

a person Vivienne cared about, they couldn't just hand

and he glanced at the caller ID before saying,

"Hand it over."

the

answered. Draven's voice, cool yet tinged with anger,

the Abernathy family done now?" Vivienne didn't need to guess; she knew Gavin must have stirred up more

Littleton's parents' graves. They've taken the ashes and are threatening that if

grip on the phone tightened as she inhaled deeply. "How is

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