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.

way, about Richard Ellington,

"Hold on, you-why? How did you even get close to the Ellingtons? Does Richard

"I'm not some Gavin. Why would Richard want to throw me

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

back to the Abernathy estate these past few days.

father is. As long as you're Holly's daughter, he's willing to welcome you.

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 and shot him a glance, suspecting that Harrison desired more than just a restoration of

At the Ellington Estate.

just received a call from Percival while still on her way

sudden news that the patriarch wanted them home for dinner caught her off-guard,

quick stop

waiting in the

who could make it from the Ellington

"Vivienne!"

the door, Isolde Ellington came running over, beaming. She hugged Vivienne's legs, pushing past Percival by more than a step. "I've missed you so

the approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy,

cheeks. "I

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

daughter came to see me 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.

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