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.

up again. "By the way, about Richard

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

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

over the moon to know

to the Abernathy estate these past few days. When on earth

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 welcome you. The doors of the Ellington Estate are always open

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?"

At the Ellington Estate.

call from Percival while

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

was already waiting in the living

could make it from the

"Vivienne!"

she stepped through 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 much. You never

be playfully scolded by the approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde. Not

Isolde puffed out her cheeks. "I

sleeping, that's what you do," Percival teased, making her sound like a

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

now."

to avoid any dissent from Vivienne and the others. By

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