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,

from the bed, her eyes wide with shock. "Hold on, you-why? How did you even get close to the Ellingtons? Does Richard know who you are? Did he not toss

me out? I took a strand of your

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

could hardly believe it. She had barely been back to the Abernathy

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

hands now. You wouldn't want a husband who is smeared online as

At the Ellington Estate.

call from Percival while still on her way back to

the patriarch wanted them home for dinner caught her

and made a quick stop at the lab before arriving at the Ellington Estate around six in the

was already waiting

nearly everyone who could make it from the Ellington family was

"Vivienne!"

over, beaming. She hugged Vivienne's legs, pushing past Percival by more than a step. "I've missed you so much. You never come

little girl pouted up at her, only to be playfully scolded by the approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde. Not everyone has the luxury of lounging around all day

"I do not! I

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

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

now."

dissent from Vivienne and the others. By the time they

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