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.

pause, he looked up again. "By the way, about Richard Ellington, I've made

Ellingtons? Does Richard know who you are? Did he not toss you out on your ear?!" She was like a

flickered with amusement. "I'm not some Gavin. Why would Richard want to throw me out? I took a strand of your hair and

moon to know you're

it. She had barely been back to the Abernathy estate these past

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

online as a homewrecker, a white lotus,

At the Ellington Estate.

received a call from Percival while still

home for dinner caught her off-guard, but she agreed

made a quick stop at

was already waiting

who could make it

"Vivienne!"

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

approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde. Not

Isolde puffed out her cheeks. "I do

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

Percival and Vivienne to accompany me to meet her tomorrow. There's going to be a dinner after the meeting, and every member of the

now."

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

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