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 Ellington, I've made

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

would Richard want to throw me out? I took a

over the moon to know

She had barely been back to the Abernathy

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

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

At the Ellington Estate.

just received a call from Percival while still

sudden news that the patriarch wanted them home for dinner caught her off-guard, but she

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

waiting in

everyone who could make

"Vivienne!"

through the door, Isolde Ellington came running over, beaming. She hugged Vivienne's legs, pushing past Percival by more

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

"I

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

want Percival and Vivienne

now."

ascended the stairs, as if to avoid any dissent from Vivienne and the others. By the time they regained their composure

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