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, about Richard Ellington, I've made contact. Tomorrow, you'll

Richard know who

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

to know you're his

believe it. She had barely been back to the Abernathy estate these past few days. When on

father is. As long as you're Holly's daughter, he's willing

now. You 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

At the Ellington Estate.

had just received a call from Percival while

that the patriarch wanted them home for dinner caught her

a quick stop at the lab before arriving at

already waiting in

who could make it from

"Vivienne!"

She hugged Vivienne's legs, pushing past Percival by more than a

pouted up at her, only to be playfully scolded by the approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde. Not everyone has

out her cheeks. "I do

you do," Percival teased, making her sound like a

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 all I have to

now."

as if to avoid any dissent from Vivienne and the

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