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.

he looked up again. "By the way, about Richard

the Ellingtons? Does Richard know who you are? Did

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

voice was low and emotionless. "He's over the moon to know

Abernathy estate these past few days. When on earth had

to tell you to forget the past, who your father is. As long as you're Holly's daughter, he's willing to welcome

husband who is smeared online as a homewrecker, a white lotus, now would you?" Victoria frowned and shot him a glance, suspecting that Harrison desired

At the Ellington Estate.

received a call from Percival while still on

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

on Tyler's injuries and made a quick stop at the

was already waiting in

could make

"Vivienne!"

hugged Vivienne's legs, pushing past

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

puffed out her cheeks. "I do not! I study hard

Percival

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

now."

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

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