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

seemed to crawl

of 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 do trust you. It's just... I

inside him toward Gavin and the

an unknown hospital with professional care to at least keep her alive. But the reality was starkly different! In this remote

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

where that foul stench

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

Percival felt a murderous

him that those people were still useful. But the agony he felt for Holly and the hatred for the Abernathys set his heart

head deeper into Vivienne's stomach, his

the thin fabric, Vivienne swallowed hard, her hand gently caressing his hair as a chill flashed in her eyes. "Mr. Wolf, the dead do not deserve our hatred." Matthew glanced up through the

had seen

was formidable, but was

hurt a person Vivienne cared about, they couldn't just hand their life over to

glanced at the caller ID

"Hand it over."

passed the phone to

yet tinged with anger,

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

joined Draven, "Ms. Vivienne, Gavin had people dig up Mrs. Littleton's parents' graves. They've taken the ashes and are threatening that

phone tightened as she inhaled deeply.

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