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 Ellington, I've made contact. Tomorrow, you'll meet

leapt from the bed, her eyes wide with shock. "Hold on, you-why? How did you even get close to 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 up and

to throw me out? I took a strand of your hair and had a little DNA testing

"He's over the moon to know you're his

been back to the Abernathy

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

a husband who is smeared online as a homewrecker, a white lotus, now would you?" Victoria

At the Ellington Estate.

received a call from Percival while still on her way

home for dinner caught her

was safely home, she checked on Tyler's injuries and made a quick stop at the lab before arriving at the Ellington Estate around six

already waiting in

everyone who could make it from the Ellington family was

"Vivienne!"

past Percival by more than a step. "I've missed you so

only to be playfully scolded by the approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy,

out her cheeks. "I do not! I study

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

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

now."

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

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