The Million-Dollar Heart

Outside the courthouse, Arthur hopped into his car without a second glance.

Seeing this, Shane hurried over, his voice full of panic. "Arthur, you're leaving just like that?"

Arthur waved dismissively, "Yeah, I'm off. You guys head back!"

Shane was visibly frustrated. "But how are we supposed to explain this to the boss? We were sent here on a mission!"

"What's there to explain? I've been single for nearly fifty years for the sake of the country. Do I not deserve a wife and kids for my sacrifice? Doesn't the boss owe me that much?" Arthur declared righteously.

Shane was speechless. "You've got a point, but you haven't found your true love yet. You randomly decided to hand Harrison and Gavin over to Vivienne, and now the higher-ups are going to be furious. Those two were key to wrapping this whole operation up..."

Before Shane could finish, Arthur cut him off, "Nothing is more important than finding my wife and daughter! Tell the boss I'm done. I'm off to find my wife!"

"What?"

Shane and the newly arrived Dante were stunned.

Was this even allowed?

Quitting on the spot without a formal resignation?

He was just going to leave with a few words?

Shaking off his shock, Shane quickly said, "Look, Arthur, we're all for you finding a wife, but that doesn't mean you have to quit your job!"

He hadn't heard the conversation between Arthur and Vivienne in the courtroom.

"It absolutely does! I've already managed to upset my own daughter! If I don't make it up to her by sending those two her way, who's going to take care of me when I'm old?" Arthur exploded.

"What?" Shane and Dante were utterly confused. "Daughter? Arthur, since when do you have a daughter? How come we didn't know?"

Arthur look for someone ever since he returned to

found out!"

now?" Shane was

asking, "You mean Vivienne is your daughter? But wasn't

just be

looked so much like Winnie, and though he hadn't met

Winnie he had been searching

Scott's girlfriend... It's still unclear whose child Vivienne

Brooks family's scandal had sealed many secrets. However, they

the Winnie in Arthur's heart, after so many years apart, who knew if she had fallen in love with someone

Dante. "Vivienne is my daughter! She's the

him, but he was

found someone else after leaving Scott, any child she had would be

Vivienne was already twenty-one.

sliced it,

the type to harbor doubts and investigate slowly. One look at Karen, and he could confirm whether she was

lead? He'd been searching slowly because

and Dante

chatter. If my wife gets

she needs, give it

and Dante were

Arthur been the one causing trouble for Vivienne from

questioning me? Why would I

Shane, Dante: ...

Shane and Dante a chance to respond, Arthur instructed the driver

with fewer than a dozen

arrival, one of the researchers

taken aback for a

expected anyone in the lab to

Hawthorn has informed us of your visit. Please, follow me,"

Brody's charge, had her own set of labs