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

on Arabella laced with impatience. Well, here 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

got suddenly upset, “What manners to teach? Vivienne’s manners are just fine; she doesn’t need anyone to teach her. She’s not

Vivienne couldn’t help but laugh at Dorian’s

turned red as she lowered her head and bit her

granny, I’m calling off the engagement with the Ellington family. Since she looks down on Vivienne, then she shouldn’t care whether she has manners or not,” Dorian said

Arabella couldn’t keep up her act, her hands

a joke! He sure treated his biological daughter differently.

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

And now?–

to call off this engagement. How come he

not going to let her get married,” Dorian said seriously, “Go tell your granny that she should stop getting any ideas to marry

was thinking. He might have listened to her in the past, but on the matter of Vivienne’s marriage, he would

This is the result of our grandfather’s lifetime effort. If because of you…” She didn’t finish her sentence, deliberately leaving it

her eyes, her red lips curled into a smile, “Yes, I don’t want to get married. Do

of Havenwood, she had made great achievements in various fields, and now she was an

by that? Was she deliberately