The Million-Dollar Heart

Vivienne shot Arthur a look, pretending not to hear his objection, her long legs crossed as she sat on the sofa.

She then clicked on the third trending topic on Twitter, curious to see how Alyssa had dug her own grave this time.

Opening the tweet, there was an audio clip that played for both Sasha and Arthur to hear.

"What's going on with you and Scott? Have you been with him?"

"What does it matter to you if I've been with Scott? What right do you have to ask?"

"I'm not interested in your personal life. I've been waiting for Arthur for years..."

"Why drag my brother into our issues?"

"We're family. Why can't your brother pay for your mistakes?"

Sasha frowned, murmuring, "I never said any of that. She's clearly manipulated my voice."

Arthur, angered, added, "Sasha would never say such things. This is obviously doctored!"

Vivienne looked at the online file, the audio continuing to play, and raised a question, "When she entered, would the guards have checked her? Could she bring something that even the Linklaters couldn't detect?"

Arthur, catching on to Vivienne's implication, his gaze sharpening, said sternly, "Someone get those two guards in here now!"

It was either the guards were bribed by Alyssa to let her sneak in the recording device, or Alyssa had something so sophisticated that even the Linklaters' latest detectors couldn't pick it up, though the latter seemed highly unlikely.

the intense pressure emanating from Arthur, like

played the recording from Vivienne's phone out loud on the coffee table, letting

as he stammered, "Mr. Linklater, I swear I followed protocol and thoroughly scanned Ms. Wright with the detector! Knowing her history with being thrown out before, I was even more diligent! But I found

spoke up for his colleague, "Mr. Linklater, I saw him check Ms. Wright carefully. We didn't intentionally let her bring any electronic devices in!" Arthur, with years of combat

her fingers flying over her laptop keyboard, pulled up the Linklaters' comprehensive surveillance footage in less than

and Winston being scanned by two guards with

not their

chuckled coldly, "Seems like there's a third

all morning. Let's go have breakfast; dad should

exchanged between mother and daughter in

Arthur's eyes, followed

due to

red-rimmed eyes, Yorick's hands

first

by him, wasn't known for such displays of

amidst her vulnerability, "Dad, I'm fine. Just getting older, losing some of my former resilience." Dracon looked on in disbelief; his sister-in-law was known for her fierceness, adept in both intellect and combat, even more intimidating than his brother at

I are getting married tomorrow, and someone releases a recording slandering her integrity, accusic of mistreating

find evidence to refute the recording's content! Sasha was so

hearing this, Yorick instructed the butler to bring him the

the comments under the tweet, Yorick's

was manipulative, but this is