The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 68

At a coffee shop.

Vivienne stood at the entrance of the coffee shop, scanning the room, the brim of her baseball cap pulled down low enough to cover her face, before striding in.

She reached the door of a booth, pushed it open, and stepped in.

The man inside immediately stood up at her entrance, “Boss!”

He, too, was dressed in all black with a baseball cap on. Unlike Vivienne, he was also wearing a mask. You couldn’t even see his eyes unless he looked up.

His name was Draven.

It wasn’t his real name. He had started using it when he began following Vivienne. As for his original name, he couldn’t remember anymore.

Vivienne closed the door, shot him a glance and said, “Don’t pick places like this next time.”

Draven replied, “Yes, boss.”

Vivienne sat down, poured herself a cup of coffee, and took a sip.

It was good coffee, but it couldn’t compare to the coffee at Cordelia’s place.

“Boss, I’ve turned the Hawthorn family’s old mansion upside down, but I couldn’t find the other bottle of potion,” Draven stood behind Vivienne, his tone serious.

Vivienne furrowed her brows, “Did you check everywhere?”

“I’ve checked everywhere. I even moved the tiles in the mansion’s bathroom, but I didn’t find anything,” Draven responded, “I’ve also planted a bug in Beatrice Hawthorn’s room. She’s never mentioned the potion to anyone. Is it possible that the information was wrong and the potion isn’t at the Hawthorn family’s?”

“There’s no way,” Vivienne said in a low voice, “My mother took two bottles of potion away. | have one, and the other was left at the Hawthorn family’s.”

This was what her mother had told her on her deathbed.

At the time, her mother was worried about getting her involved and hadn’t planned on telling her. But after receiving a phone call at the last moment, she changed her mind.

Her mother had given her a bottle of potion and told her to keep it safe, also told her that there was another one at the Hawthorn family’s…

And then, her mother passed away.

to the Hawthorn family was to find that bottle of

searched every nook and cranny of the Hawthorn family’s. If it’s not there, it could only be with

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head, “It’s not with him

that three-bedroom apartment when she’d first moved in, but she didn’t find

she’d searched again, but

she’d sent Draven to search the Hawthorn

wasn’t in the Hawthorn family’s

possible that Dorian knew the importance of the potion and didn’t keep it at home?” Draven

it really be like

his home, where else could Dorian hide

just ask Dorian

Vivienne lowered her head, her

what kind of

as he appeared to be, or if he was acting nice to her

for sure if the potion was with

make sure Dorian was

two other teams looking for the potion recently. One is GTO, and the other’s identity is unknown. I didn’t dare to act rashly, so I

found the Hawthorn family so

You’re in danger

suddenly laughed, “Shouldn’t they be the

words. He knew his boss would say something like

is always

sip of her coffee, stood up, and said, “Have your people pull out from the Hawthorn family. You don’t need to worry

“But you..”

him a

won’t die.”

Draven was speechless.

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shop, Vivienne returned to Tranquil

others

came to

been thinking about

I’ll bring it to you.” Cordelia knew

Richard and Dorian were playing chess, and Isolde was playing with the toy Vivienne had bought for Thaddeus Hawthorn on the

a phone, engrossed

directly opposite Percival.

the potion. She had a hunch this might be connected to

his mother today was certainly not