The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 785

In Victoria's backyard.

The room was a spacious forty square meters, with two king-sized beds laid out like in a hotel double room.

Victoria and Harrison each claimed a bed, with a couple of nightstands separating them, a casual gap that nonetheless felt like a chasm.

The room was brightly lit, and as Victoria scrolled through her phone, she suddenly sat up and turned to Harrison. "Why did you help me today?"

Harrison's fingers paused on the page he was flipping, and he looked up with a bemused expression. "You're my wife, aren't you? Who else am I supposed to help, Sophie?

Let's face it, I'm your husband, at least on paper. Our interests are aligned, and besides, we're in this business deal together, right?"

The man gave a small, secretive smile, the lamplight casting twinkling stars in his eyes.

You had to admit, Harrison had a certain charm about him.

No wonder Kaitlyn was completely taken in by him back when he was just a twenty-something.

Victoria would have been defenseless too..

Lost in thought, her gaze still wary as she eyed Harrison, she quipped, "Playing the doting husband now, are we?"

"Well, now that you've seen behind the mask, what's the point in keeping it up?" Harrison's eyes returned to his book without lifting his head.

up again. "By the way, about

the bed, her eyes wide with shock. "Hold on, you-why? How did you even get close to the Ellingtons? Does Richard know who you are? Did he not toss you out on your ear?!" She was like a startled calico cat, all

Why would Richard want to throw me out? I took a strand of your hair and had a

low and emotionless. "He's over the moon to know

Abernathy estate these past few days. When on earth had Harrison taken her

to forget the past, who your father is. As long as you're Holly's

it's all in your hands now. You wouldn't want a husband who is smeared online as a

At the Ellington Estate.

Percival while

that the patriarch wanted them home for

a quick stop at the lab before arriving at the Ellington Estate around six in

already waiting in

everyone who could make it

"Vivienne!"

beaming. She hugged Vivienne's legs, pushing past Percival by more than

Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde.

"I do not! I study hard every

do," Percival teased, making her sound like

bickering. I've called you here for a reason. Holly's daughter came to see me today, and I want Percival and Vivienne to accompany me to meet

now."

Vivienne and the others. By the time they regained their composure and thought to inquire further, Richard had vanished

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