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,

Does Richard know who you are? Did he not toss you out on your ear?!" She was

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

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

could hardly believe it. She had barely been back to the Abernathy estate these past few days. When on earth had Harrison taken her

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

Don't 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

At the Ellington Estate.

just received a call from Percival while still on her way back to the

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

Tyler's injuries and made a quick stop at the

was already waiting in

who could make it from

"Vivienne!"

She hugged Vivienne's legs, pushing past Percival by more than a step. "I've missed you so

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

out her cheeks. "I do

Percival teased, making her

a reason. Holly's daughter came to see me today, and I want Percival and Vivienne to accompany me to meet her tomorrow.

now."

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

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