The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 38

Chapter 38

Arabella felt a chill run down her spine under Vivienne’s piercing gaze.

Vivienne was downright terrifying!

She instinctively took a step back.

Everyone else in the room was equally unnerved by the commanding presence Vivienne exuded.

“Is she really just a country girl?” they all wondered.

Vivienne had an aura around her that even the most well–bred socialites couldn’t match.

The room fell into an eerie silence. Dorian broke the silence, asking Vivienne, “Is there really no other way?”

“There is. Wait till the drug wears off!” Vivienne’s tone softened when she addressed Dorian.

Upon hearing this, Dorian simply nodded, not uttering another word. “If you can’t fix this, then let’s just head home. We won’t be coming here anymore unless absolutely necessary,” he said.

His words were a direct challenge to Beatrice.

She immediately shot back, “Dorian! What are you implying? Are you cutting ties with me?”

“If you can’t stand Vivienne, I won’t bring her here to be humiliated. She’s my daughter. If you can’t love her, then I’ll love her for you!”

With that, Dorian took Vivienne and left.

Beatrice was seething with anger. “You bastard! I call the shots in this household! As the child of the Hawthorn family, Vivienne.should–follow my commands!”

Vivienne stopped in her tracks, turning back to face her. “My life is mine to control!”

Beatrice was rendered speechless, unable to spout her usual insults in the presence of so many people.

Beatrice, Vivienne turned to Percival. “Mr. Ellington! There’s only one condition for our engagement. Give the intended gifts to Dorian. The Hawthorn family didn’t raise me.

chuckled,

everyone else in the

first to recover, raising her voice, “Wait, engagement? You

agreed days ago. We’re getting engaged in ten

struck by lightning. Her mind

was actually scheduled for ten days

complete fool thinking Percival had fallen for Arabella!

have wasted so much effort. Now, she was left with her

must be

elder. She calls the shots in this household. The engagement gifts should

her voice, her hands

to the engagement all along, but never said a

the Hawthorn

That’s unacceptable!

agreed, “That’s completely unethical!”

that’s just

left, not even sparing them

such determination, all

came to an end, and the guests left

the scandalous event was made public.

evening, the Hawthorn family was the talk of

being drugged was anonymously uploaded

than the Mariana Trench. A grandmother drugging her

thinking. The real Hawthorn child is way more beautiful than

real Hawthorn daughter’s ability to keep her cool and find an antidote after being drugged. And Mr. Ellington, despite his disability, didn’t take advantage of her. Any other man

the real Hawthorn daughter

exposed

love child who’s already six years old!”

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