The Million-Dollar Heart

Asher was about to say something more, but Thomas didn't give him the time of day. With a swift turn, he and his team moved to apprehend the Grimshaws. Asher's brow twitched uncontrollably, feeling as if his dignity was being trampled into the dirt.

"Vivienne, have you considered the consequences of your actions?" Asher gritted his teeth as he glared at Vivienne.

Vivienne, hands in her pockets, exuded an aura of defiance. "Consequences? Never cared for them."

Asher laughed in disbelief, repeating, "Fine, fine, fine! If you choose to dismiss the Grimshaws, then don't blame me for what comes next!"

Raising his voice, Asher commanded, "All Grimshaws, listen up! Attack with full force. Treat all outsiders on our turf as fair game, dead or alive!"

The Grimshaws, always proud and disdainful, whether servants or masters, looked down on everyone else.

Suddenly invaded by Vivienne and Percival, and seeing that their captors were heavily armed-obviously government forces-they had hesitated to fight back. But with Asher's command, they threw caution to the wind and charged at Vivienne's team.

In an instant, chaos erupted.

Vivienne just smiled.

Turning to Percival, her smile was irrepressible. "Mr. Wolf, the world is full of fools gifting us their heads on a platter!"

Percival grinned back, "Free heads, why not take them?"

Then, looking at Leopold and Thomas, he said indifferently, "Leopold, Thomas, if even one Grimshaw escapes, you'll be mining coal on Fariana Isle!"

Leopold, energized as if injected with adrenaline, declared, "Don't worry, Percival. Mining coal won't be my fate!"

attacking a leadership figure of the

submit any evidence, the

Vivienne's evidence, their fate was

won't fall to me. Don't worry, Percival, if even one Grimshaw escapes, I'll make Fariana Isle my new home!" With that, he and Leopold, guns in hand, aimed and fired at a Grimshaw

action left the Grimshaws in

have anticipated that Vivienne's team would actually

commanded his people to be ruthless, but even his forces had held back, not even using their ancient

But now...

surging, forming an invisible energy sphere in his palm. "You're

palm struck forward,

simply raised her hand, and with a wave, a transparent barrier shielded her

it hit cotton.

stunned, incredulously staring at Vivienne, "How, how can

knew Vivienne possessed inner

of abilities, that was

the secret of the ancient

knew the ancient warrior lineage for their mystical arts, like

warrior lineage's lifeline, not to

lesser families had them, like the once-prominent Boyds, who lacked such abilities, though the Perezes did possess them. However, the Perezes had

their abilities again.

anger, had carelessly used his ability, thinking it would, if

were unharmed,

had some free time and picked up

mastery of the ability was recent, discovered while translating a secret text found at Scott's place with Finnian. Finnian had failed to decipher

Just a fortunate coincidence.

to the Dorian residence to catch up with them, and it just so happened that Thaddeus Hawthorn, Isolde Ellington, and

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