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

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 you out on your ear?!"

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

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

been back to the Abernathy estate these past few days. When on earth had Harrison taken

who your father is. As

as a homewrecker,

At the Ellington Estate.

Percival while

wanted them home for

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

waiting in the living

Percival; nearly everyone who could make it from

"Vivienne!"

legs, pushing past Percival by more than a step. "I've missed you so much. You never come home to

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

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

that's what you do," Percival teased,

to see me today, and I want Percival and Vivienne to accompany me

now."

if to avoid any dissent from Vivienne and the others. By the time

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