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.

she harbored for Vivienne or how

in front of her, she had no choice but

her support, so her ambitions and desires would be impossible to

could she find someone like Beatrice, who valued

was a hurdle she had to

was unwilling,

each kowtow on the ground, she told herself, “Arabella, just endure this

Arabella’s performance with a smile, as if

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as to think that she

Thaddeus captive. Beatrice’s strategy was to

sympathize with the underdog, regardless of right and wrong, and the

the entire Ellington family, were oppressing the weak with their power, while the

record the situation in the room and post it online at this moment, it would definitely spark a public outcry sympathizing with the weak and condemning

under

Regrettably, she was Vivienne.

the kind to be

dealing with morally

She just wanted to see what Arabella

Interesting, right?

like clowns in front of her and then defeat them in the

Are you really going to be this heartless?!” Seeing that Vivienne was still unresponsive, Arabella finally started to panic. She looked up; her smooth

reporters were all heartbroken and angrily

her anymore. Can’t you see? Vivienne is just a

you’re like this, and she can still

and held it against her

reporters were horrified and

“Arabella, don’t be impulsive!”

yourself, the ruthless

when she tried to throw herself onto the ground to stop Arabella, but she then

Beatrice, cried out, and then