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

she had no choice but to do

Hawthorn family, she would lose her support, so her ambitions and desires would be impossible to

like Beatrice, who valued her, the adopted granddaughter more than her

a hurdle she had to

unwilling,

told herself, “Arabella, just endure this once. You’ll get back double the humiliation

beginning. She just watched Arabella’s performance with a smile, as if she were watching

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to think that she could force Vivienne

captive. Beatrice’s strategy was to bind Vivienne with

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

that she and Percival, even the entire Ellington family, were oppressing the weak with their power, while the sick Beatrice and crying Arabella were the

post it online at this moment, it

have surrendered under such family pressure and public

Regrettably, she was Vivienne.

her. She was not the kind to

with morally

remained silent. She just wanted to see what Arabella would do if she didn’t

Interesting, right?

them perform like clowns in front

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

heartbroken and

Can’t you see? Vivienne is

you’re like this, and she can still

flustered and shook her head frantically. Suddenly, she pulled out a knife and held it against her left wrist. “What can I do for you to spare the Hawthorn family? Can my death do it? Will it be

and quickly tried to

“Arabella, don’t be impulsive!”

if you hurt yourself, the ruthless Vivienne won’t spare the

eyes were wide open when she tried to throw herself onto the ground to stop Arabella, but she then

held Beatrice, cried out, and then glared