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.

looked up again. "By the way, about Richard

you even get close to the Ellingtons? Does Richard know who

Gavin. Why would Richard want to throw me out? I took a strand of your hair and had a little DNA testing

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

the Abernathy estate these past few days.

wasn't profound enough, Harrison continued, "He also said to tell you 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

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

At the Ellington Estate.

call from Percival while still

wanted them home for dinner caught her off-guard,

was safely home, she checked on Tyler's injuries and made a quick stop

was already waiting in the

nearly everyone who could

"Vivienne!"

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

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

"I do

what you do," Percival teased, making

I want Percival and Vivienne to accompany me to meet her tomorrow. There's going to be a dinner

now."

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 inquire further, Richard had vanished

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