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

to crawl

relief as she said, "Mr. Wolf, trust me, I will heal your aunt." Percival's

control the hatred bubbling up inside him toward Gavin and the

the Ellington heiress, she would be placed in an unknown hospital with professional care to at least keep her alive. But the reality was starkly

pulled back the covers, even he couldn't

where that foul stench lingering around

blanket was Holly's withered body,

that moment, Percival

shred of his sanity reminded him that those people were still useful. But the agony he felt for Holly and the hatred for the Abernathys set his heart ablaze with

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

her eyes. "Mr. Wolf, the dead do not deserve our hatred." Matthew

last time he had seen such a chilling expression

was

a person Vivienne cared about, they couldn't just hand their life over to the Grim Reaper without her

at the caller

"Hand it over."

the phone to

voice, cool yet tinged with anger,

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

Draven, "Ms. Vivienne, Gavin had people dig up Mrs. Littleton's parents' graves. They've taken the ashes and are threatening that if we don't hand over the secret recipe within three days, they'll scatter

as she inhaled deeply. "How

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