The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

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Elijah’s face suddenly changed.

Arabella stepped forward, reprimanding Vivienne, “I know you can’t be Elijah’s student, and you’re bitter about it, but you’re so arrogant!”

“You’re just a fame-seeker.” Vivienne looked at Elijah as if he were some sort of joke as her right index finger gently tapped on the armrest of her chair. “We’ve only met a few times at school, and you think you can judge whether I have a talent for perfume blending?”

She laughed again with an expression full of mockery. “How did you figure that out? Psychic powers? Brainwave detection?”

The air in the hall became oppressive and then erupted into laughter like thunder.

One guy shouted, “I finally get it. Elijah’s here to pick a fight with Ms. Vivienne. Ms. Vivienne is a double PhD holder. Why would she want to be your student?”

Another guy chimed in. “I was wondering why this whole thing was so weird. If you don’t want to take a student, then don’t. Ms. Vivienne never once said she wanted to be his student. He and Arabella are acting like Ms. Vivienne is dying to be his student. And he says he can see talent? What an idiot!”

Everyone turned to look. It was Logan and Oberon.

The students from Class Eighteen didn’t come to Elijah’s talk tonight, and neither of them planned to.

They were just hungry during evening self-study, so they went to the snack bar next to the school auditorium.

When they passed the main entrance of the auditorium and heard that Elijah was taking Arabella as his student, they decided to go in and see.

The auditorium was packed, so they didn’t sit down. They just stood by the aisle and listened. Who would have thought they would hear Elijah insult Vivienne so much? The more they listened, the angrier they got. In the end, they couldn’t help but speak up.

After their exposure, everyone also felt that Elijah and Arabella’s actions were too deliberate. On the surface, they said they were apologizing to Vivienne, but in fact, they were using the student-teacher relationship to humiliate Vivienne.

Elijah’s true intentions were exposed so blatantly. In an instant, he was embarrassed on stage, and his face turned ugly.

have been so arrogant. Arabella only pleaded with him a couple of times, and he agreed

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it herself.” Arabella saw Elijah had been rebutted and was speechless. She was immediately nervous and quickly came up with a

of my talent for perfume blending. But you were dissatisfied with our grandmother because of this, so you took revenge on me and drove

as she spoke, looking utterly sincere, as if she were heartbroken

the bankruptcy of the Hawthorn Group on Vivienne’s jealousy of

this. After all, outsiders did not know what was truly going on. From their point of view, Vivienne was the biological daughter of the Hawthorn

people began to privately discuss about

on the Hawthorn family’s perfume business, she wanted me to take a student between the two of you. I saw Arabella’s talent

turning things upside down, but they spoke with such certainty that you would almost think

is not up to Beatrice or you, but the works I create.” She originally wanted to see what big moves they were

Was this it?

She immediately lost patience.

wondered if he misunderstood. “Are you challenging me?

raised her eyebrows and

came knocking, she didn’t

you can beat me?” Elijah thought Vivienne was overestimating herself and also felt that she

Arabella pretended to be shocked, but in reality, she was very happy. She just wanted to use

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worried look for Vivienne. “How can you beat Elijah? Just apologize to Elijah now. Act like you

mad, and they looked at her

looking at Elijah with a challenging

not taking Vivienne seriously at all. “And don’t say I’m bullying you. I’ll give you a week. A week later, we’ll have a perfume-blending contest here at Cloudcrest High School. I’ll invite renowned perfume experts to

let’s

his voice. “This is totally out of the blue! How am I supposed to get a renowned perfume critic on such short notice? And let’s get

be in Havenwood.” Percival said as he lifted his head nonchalantly. “She’s here with her

get all my ingredients and equipment ready. Perfume-making is an art that requires inspiration.

in agreement. “Alright, you’ve got a

reason, felt a surge of unease at Vivienne’s rapid

with a lot of perfume recipes left behind. You wouldn’t be planning

Vivienne’s eyes