The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

After hanging up the phone, Vivienne pushed open the window, staring at the blue sky outside with a cold expression. “Mom, who did you piss off?”

She left the Hawthorn family when she was only nine. All she remembered was her mother being bullied by Beatrice, but her mother always put up with it. At that time, she didn’t understand why her mother, who was clearly a smart and capable person, would be bullied and not fight back. It wasn’t until they left the Hawthorn family and found themselves pursued by various parties that she understood her mother’s mysterious Muay Thai, Her mother wasn’t ignorant of resistance, she was evading those who were after them.

Until one day, her mother received a call. She noticed her mother’s unusual expression, but due to her young age and multiple escape experiences, she thought someone was after them again.

But that night, her mother committed suicide. Her mother ended her life with a poison she developed.

Before leaving, she told Vivienne to go to the Emerald Monastery to find Finnian, to learn Muay Thai from him, and warned her not to leave the there for ten years and to hide her abilities. Her mother made a special request that after her death, she should be cremated, and there was no need to erect a tombstone.

Ten years later, she was to return to the Hawthorn family to find her father, Dorian, and fulfill her engagement with Percival.

She did everything else. The only thing she didn’t do was marry Percival.

For the past ten years, she lived in the shadow of her mother’s death, she had to seek revenge, and couldn’t let marriage hinder her. But now she found out that Percival was also involved in the events back then.

The engagement was cancelled, so to find out the truth about the past, she had to find another way.

thoughts. She opened the door, only to see

including Beatrice’s eldest son, youngest son’s

filled with rage, especially when they saw Vivienne, as if they couldn’t wait to tear her to

break off the engagement

believe that Vivienne would unilaterally break off the engagement. If it wasn’t for Richard’s call, she wouldn’t

call she wouldn’t eve

the Hawthorn family hadn’t publicly announced her identity, so Richard didn’t know that the person to be married to Percival was Vivienne, not Arabella. But Beatrice didn’t care, as long as Richard

She stared at Beatrice

was me who let Vivienne break off the engagement.” Dorian shielded Vivienne behind him and

the engagement. She just wanted to find a

for your pride? You look down on

you say that about our mom? She’s doing this for the Hawthorn family, and besides, the Ellington family said that Vivienne wouldn’t be mistreated if

right? She’s nineteen now and can’t go to college, so she can only find some lowly paid jobs to get by.” Dorian’s second brother Joseph added. “With her qualifications, she can only find jobs like waitressing, her future partner can only be ordinary, so

have the right to decide who she marries. No matter how

the granddaughter of the

out a cold laugh, her eyes filled with disdain.

her eyes like venomous snakes. “What are you laughing

It seems like I haven’t spent a

she could hardly breathe, glaring at Vivienne with a hint of resentment. This little brat sure had a sharp tongue. “Vivienne!” Michael shouted angrily, “How can you talk to your grandmother like that? She’s your elder. Is this how your mother taught