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 responsibility for

calmly. “You detained Thaddeus and prevented us from saving him. Breaking your hand

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in the

hearing that Beatrice and Michael had abused Thaddeus and kept him locked in the bathroom, the reporters and cops looked at Michael with scorn. And he had the nerve

taken aback. He hadn’t expected

she also had

self-defense. And you attacked Vivienne first; Percival just

ignored him

knife she had used to

twisted in hatred, and her eyes showed her

the cops rushed forward to protect

before Arabella could even raise the knife,

flew back, hitting the hospital room wall hard

was dumbfounded. Who would have thought that

weighed over a

present, it would be hard to send her flying with

few ribs

Vivienne did it

innocently asked the cops, “This counts as self-defense,

Everyone was speechless.

Wasn’t this excessive self-defense?

infuriated by this, and she spat out a mouthful of

didn’t care. The lead cop nodded at

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

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Well said.

hearing this, Arabella spat out another

from the floor like a dead

no strength to resist. She

she cast a