The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 106

Maybe out of fear of jail, Arabella suddenly summoned up unusual strength. Despite three or four cops trying to pry her off, she clung to Beatrice even tighter while wailing non-stop.

“Granny, help me! I can’t go to jail. I don’t want to!”

Just when Beatrice was about to be choked to death, Joseph, who was standing by, suddenly slapped Arabella. “Your granny is already sick as a dog. Do you want to kill her?”

Beatrice had always spoiled Arabella, but Joseph was not so gentle. Pretending to be angry, he began to accuse her. “You fooled us! You made us believe Vivienne took your glory, and that’s why the Hawthorn family is in such a mess. And now you want your granny to save you?”

The slap left Arabella stunned. No one had ever hit her like this during her time with the Hawthorn family.

While she was still dazed, the cops quickly twisted her arms behind her back, cuffed her, and pulled her away from Beatrice.

Vivienne, noticing Beatrice’s obvious relief and heavy breathing, smirked.

Her smirk immediately caught Arabella’s venomous gaze.

“You guys say I’m guilty, right? Then what about Percival breaking Michael’s hand? Isn’t that intentional assault? You must arrest him too!” Arabella screamed this at the cops before they took her away, pointing to a dumbstruck Michael on the floor.

The cops were taken aback and glanced at Michael’s obviously broken hand and then at Percival with furrowed brows.

If Michael had the injury assessed, it would indeed be a Class II minor injury, which is considered intentional assault.

“Right!” Michael gathered his wits and pointed at Percival with his intact hand. “He’s the one who did this to my hand!”

He thought that if Percival wanted to be the future head of the Ellington family, he couldn’t have a criminal record or have done any jail time.

Perhaps the Hawthorn family could use this to threaten Percival to back down.

Too bad for him, Vivienne simply laughed.

take

“You detained Thaddeus and prevented us from saving him.

out her phone and

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the

Michael had abused Thaddeus and kept him locked in the bathroom, the

aback. He hadn’t expected

Vivienne didn’t just record it, she also had a mini camera in her brooch. She never

“This is indeed self-defense. And you attacked Vivienne first; Percival

the cops ignored him and prepared

a moment of distraction, grabbed the knife she had used to slit

was twisted in hatred, and her eyes showed her great madness. She was clearly out of

screamed, and the cops

could even raise the knife, Vivienne kicked

wall hard before falling heavily to the ground, unable to

Percival, everyone was dumbfounded. Who would have thought that the petite Vivienne could kick

weighed over a

for the men present, it would be hard to

broke a few ribs when she

did it

her leg. Vivienne innocently asked the cops, “This counts as self-defense,

Everyone was speechless.

Wasn’t this excessive self-defense?

by this, and she spat out a mouthful of

care. The lead cop

“Don’t worry, even though her attack failed, she can still be charged with attempted

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Well said.

Arabella spat out another mouthful of blood

Arabella from

time, Arabella had no strength to resist.

she was taken away, she cast a hateful