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.

looked up again. "By the way,

did you even get close to the Ellingtons? Does Richard

throw me out? I took a strand of your hair and had a little DNA

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

been back to the Abernathy estate these past few days. When on

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

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

At the Ellington Estate.

from Percival while still on her way back

news that the patriarch wanted them home for

and made a quick stop at the

was already waiting

could make it

"Vivienne!"

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

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

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

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

here for a reason. Holly's daughter came to see me today, and I want Percival and Vivienne

now."

to avoid any dissent from Vivienne and the others. By the time they regained their composure and thought to inquire further, Richard

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