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.

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

shock. "Hold on, you-why? How did you even get close to the Ellingtons? Does Richard know who you are?

"I'm not some Gavin. Why would Richard want to throw me out? I took a

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

the Abernathy estate these

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

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.

from Percival while still on her

news that the patriarch wanted them home for dinner caught

Tyler's injuries and made a quick stop at the lab before arriving at the Ellington Estate around

already waiting in

everyone who could make it from the Ellington

"Vivienne!"

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

the approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde. Not everyone has the luxury of lounging

cheeks. "I do not! I study hard

Percival teased, making her

with a smile, watching them settle down before turning serious. "Stop your bickering. I've called you 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 dinner after the meeting, and every member of the Ellington family should be there. That's

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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