The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 104

Percival shot a glance at the reporter speaking to him..

The reporter was young. He was sporting a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and the moment

his

gaze met Percival’s, he felt a chill run down his spine, making him step back instinctively. But when he saw Arabella’s tear-streaked face and Michael writhing in pain on the ground, his sense of “justice” overpowered him. “What are you looking at? Did I say something

I wrong? I think Michael should go get his injuries checked out and sue you for intentional

harm!” He blurted out.

Others chimed in. “Exactly. Those who abuse their power and oppress others will eventually get their just deserts!”

“Vivienne is such a letdown. The Hawthorn family raised her, and yet she let her fiancé drive them to the brink of bankruptcy. What an ungrateful brat!”

“We’re definitely going public with what happened today. We want everyone to see your true

colors!”

“I think they should publicly apologize to Hawthorn Group and compensate them for all their losses.”

Arabella seized this opportunity. She fell to her knees and began begging Vivienne while sobbing. “Please, beg the Ellington family to spare the Hawthorn family! I’ll take all the blame! Please! Do you really want to see the Hawthorn family go bankrupt to be satisfied?”

She lay on the ground as her voice choked with emotions, pleading over and over again. She looked like the wronged underdog.

But hidden from public view, her eyes showed an intense hatred.

Arabella’s public kneeling and begging to Vivienne were not voluntary.

how much resentment she harbored for Vivienne or how much

of her, she had

the Hawthorn family, she would lose her support, so her

Beatrice, who valued

a hurdle she had

she was unwilling, Arabella still kowtowed

the ground, she told herself, “Arabella, just endure this once. You’ll get back double the humiliation you suffered today on

watched Arabella’s performance with a smile, as if she were watching

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as to think that she could force Vivienne

by holding Thaddeus captive. Beatrice’s strategy

sympathize with the underdog, regardless of right and wrong, and the underdog always has the upper

seemed that she and Percival, even the entire Ellington family, were oppressing the weak with

this moment, it would definitely spark a

would have surrendered under such family pressure and public

Regrettably, she was Vivienne.

was not the kind to be easily bound

with

silent. She just wanted to see what

Interesting, right?

front of her and

really going to be this heartless?!” Seeing that Vivienne was still unresponsive, Arabella finally started to panic. She looked up; her smooth forehead was already reddened from kowtowing; she had tears streaking down her cheeks, and her

onlooking reporters were all heartbroken and angrily started

her anymore. Can’t you see? Vivienne is

like this, and

frantically. Suddenly, she pulled out a knife and held it against her left wrist. “What can I do

were horrified and

“Arabella, don’t be impulsive!”

you hurt yourself, the ruthless Vivienne

when she tried to throw herself

Joseph immediately held Beatrice, cried out, and then glared