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.

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

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

not some Gavin. Why would Richard want to throw me out? I took a strand of your hair and had a little DNA testing

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

barely been back to the Abernathy

wasn't profound enough, Harrison continued, "He also said to tell you to forget the past, who your father is. As long as

want a 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 more than just a restoration of his

At the Ellington Estate.

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

home for

Tyler's injuries and made a quick stop at the lab before

already waiting in the

wasn't just Percival; nearly everyone who could make it from the Ellington family

"Vivienne!"

Isolde Ellington came running over, beaming. She hugged Vivienne's legs, pushing past Percival by more

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

Isolde puffed out her cheeks. "I do not! I

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

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 dinner after the meeting, and

now."

and the others. By the time they regained their composure and thought to inquire further,

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