The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 3

Dorian was about to call off the engagement with the Ellington family when a sudden ring of the doorbell interrupted him.-

Dorian and Cordelia immediately got up to answer the door. Vivienne also got up, seeing as it was basic etiquette to greet the guests.

The visitor turned out to be Arabella. Dorian and Cordelia were taken aback, and even Vivienne raised an eyebrow. Weren’t they just at the Hawthorn Mansion and here Arabella was already on their doorstep?

“Dad, Mom, I came to visit you, and also to see my sister. I brought her some clothes.” Arabella was dressed in a light–colored dress, her hair pulled to the sides, and she wore a sweet smile on her face. She had an air of refined tranquility about her.

Cordelia glanced at the bag in Arabella’s hands and her expression immediately changed. These clothes were bought by Beatrice for Arabella; many were only worn once and never again.

“You’re so considerate.” Cordelia took the bag from Arabella and casually placed it on a cabinet.

“What brought you here all of a sudden?” Dorian glanced at the bag in Arabella’s hand, and his expression turning serious.

Arabella’s gaze shifted slightly, she looked up at Dorian, her eyes welling up with tears, and said in an aggrieved tone, “I know you just found my sister and you want to spend more time with her. I understand if you don’t want to see me, but granny told me to come to teach my sister some manners

we go again. Over the years, every time she came over, she would be in tears, as if someone had mistreated her. Wasn’t she the one who looked down

anyone to teach her. She’s not marrying into the royal family. Why the need

Dorian’s comment. Dorian sure had a

turned red as she lowered her head and bit her lip, “Dad, that’s not what I meant. I just…”

calling off the engagement with the Ellington family. Since she looks down on Vivienne, then she shouldn’t care

her hands clenching her skirt, hatred almost spewing from

a joke! He sure treated his biological daughter differently.

thought she was the one engaged to Percival, she had subtly expressed her reluctance to marry Percival, but Dorian had said that it wasn’t up to him to call

And now?–

was in a hurry to call off this engagement. How come

going to let her get married,” Dorian said seriously, “Go tell your granny that she should stop getting any ideas to marry Vivienne off.”

on the matter of Vivienne’s marriage, he would make no concessions. If anyone dared to have any designs on Vivienne,

looking at Vivienne and softly saying, “You don’t want the Hawthorn family to be in trouble, do you? This is the result of our grandfather’s lifetime effort. If because

lifted her eyes, her red lips curled into a

was stunned, her expression turning sour. Was she to marry that disabled Percival? She was the talented girl of Havenwood, she had made great achievements in various fields, and now she was

Was she deliberately trying to make