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.

again. "By the way, about Richard Ellington,

Ellingtons? Does Richard know who you are? Did he not toss you out on your ear?!" She was like a startled calico cat,

flickered with amusement. "I'm not some Gavin. Why would Richard want to throw me out? I took a strand of your hair and

the moon to know

it. She had barely been back to the Abernathy estate these past

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

let me down, okay? The lawsuit, my reputation, it's all in your hands now. You wouldn't want a husband who is smeared online as a homewrecker, a white lotus, now would you?" Victoria frowned and shot him a glance, suspecting that

At the Ellington Estate.

Percival while still on her

for dinner caught her off-guard, but

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

waiting in the

nearly everyone who could make it from the Ellington

"Vivienne!"

beaming. She hugged Vivienne's legs, pushing past Percival by more than a step. "I've missed you so much. You never come home to

Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde. Not everyone has the luxury of lounging around all day

cheeks. "I do not! I study

that's what you do," Percival teased, making her

and Vivienne to accompany me to meet her tomorrow. There's going to be a dinner after the meeting, and every member of the Ellington family should be there. That's all I have to

now."

stairs, as if to avoid any dissent from Vivienne and the others. By the time they regained their

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