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.

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

wide with shock. "Hold on, you-why? How did you even get close to the Ellingtons? Does Richard know who you are? Did he

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

was low and emotionless. "He's over the moon to know you're his granddaughter. Why

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

to forget the past, who your father is. As long as you're Holly's daughter, he's willing to welcome you. The doors of the Ellington Estate are always open

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?"

At the Ellington Estate.

call from Percival while still on

wanted them home for dinner caught her off-guard, but she agreed

injuries and made a quick stop at the

was already waiting in

just Percival; nearly everyone who could make

"Vivienne!"

Vivienne's legs, pushing past Percival by

at her, only to be playfully scolded by the approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde. Not everyone

her cheeks. "I

Percival teased, making her sound like a

today, and I want Percival and Vivienne to accompany me to

now."

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

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