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!"

of headlights that flickered before Vivienne's eyes. Percival,

seemed to

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

inside him

Ellington heiress, she would be placed in an unknown

the covers, even he couldn't suppress the rising bile in his

understood where that foul stench lingering around the Abernathy property came

stained blanket was Holly's

moment, Percival felt

were still useful. But the agony he felt for Holly and the hatred for

into Vivienne's

in her eyes. "Mr. Wolf, the dead do not deserve our hatred." Matthew glanced up through the rear-view

last time he had seen such a

was

Vivienne cared about, they couldn't just hand their life over to the

and he glanced at the caller ID

"Hand it over."

passed the phone to

answered. Draven's voice, cool yet tinged with anger, came through, "Young

Abernathy family done now?" Vivienne didn't need to guess;

ashes and are threatening that if

tightened as she inhaled deeply. "How is Kaitlyn holding

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