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!"

any trace of light, leaving their car in the darkness, save for the occasional flash of headlights that flickered before Vivienne's eyes.

seemed to

a sigh of relief as she said, "Mr. Wolf, trust me, I will heal your aunt."

the hatred bubbling up inside him toward Gavin and the

of respect for her status as the Ellington heiress, she would be placed in an unknown hospital with

the covers, even he couldn't suppress

understood where that foul stench lingering around the

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

Percival felt

useful. But the agony he felt for Holly and

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

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 Vivienne

last time he had seen

warrior lineage was formidable, but was

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

glanced at the caller ID before saying,

"Hand it over."

passed the phone to

cool yet tinged with anger, came through,

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

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

she

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