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.

regretted his actions and felt that he shouldn’t have been so arrogant. Arabella only pleaded with him a couple of times, and he agreed

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don’t have any talent for perfume blending. Our grandmother tested it herself.” Arabella saw Elijah had been

me because of my talent for perfume blending. But you were dissatisfied

utterly sincere, as if

completely blamed the bankruptcy of the Hawthorn Group on Vivienne’s jealousy of her and glossed over

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

while, many people began to privately discuss about how Vivienne was being an

differences.” Elijah found a topic and quickly echoed it. “Not long ago, Beatrice contacted me. In order to carry on the Hawthorn family’s perfume business, she wanted me to take a student between

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

not is not up to Beatrice or you, but the works I

Was this it?

She immediately lost patience.

mean?” Elijah wondered if he misunderstood. “Are you challenging me? Want

raised her eyebrows and

trouble. But when trouble came knocking, she didn’t mind

think you can beat me?” Elijah thought Vivienne was overestimating

just wanted to use Elijah’s fame to humiliate Vivienne and vent. She didn’t expect Vivienne to challenge Elijah

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can you beat Elijah? Just apologize to Elijah

Vivienne had gone mad,

ignored Arabella, only looking at

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

let’s

How am I supposed to get a renowned perfume critic on such short notice? And let’s

perfume critic, Mrs. Dunhill, just happens to be in Havenwood.” Percival said as he lifted his head nonchalantly.

an art that requires inspiration. Only amateurs like

agreement. “Alright, you’ve

reason, felt a surge of

“I heard that your late mother was also a perfumer with a lot of

you?” Vivienne’s eyes twinkled with