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.

brief pause, he looked up again. "By the way, about Richard Ellington, I've made contact. Tomorrow, you'll meet

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 puffed

want to throw me out? I took a strand of your hair

over the moon to know you're his granddaughter. Why would he turn

could hardly believe it. She had barely been back to the Abernathy

"He also said to tell you to forget the past, who your father is. As long as you're Holly's daughter, he's

smeared online as a homewrecker, a white lotus, now would you?" Victoria frowned and shot him a glance, suspecting that Harrison desired more than just a

At the Ellington Estate.

a call from Percival while still on her way back to

them home for dinner caught her off-guard, but she agreed without

a quick stop

was already waiting in the living

wasn't just Percival; nearly everyone who could make it from the

"Vivienne!"

pushing past Percival by more than a step. "I've missed you so much. You never

be playfully scolded by the approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde. Not

"I do not! I

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

now."

the old man briskly ascended the stairs, as if to avoid any dissent from Vivienne and the others. By the time they

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