The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 138

Hospital Waiting Room.

The wall-mounted TV in the room flicked on to the Havenwood News. Vivienne watched as Arabella’s pitiful face appeared on the screen, surrounded by reporters,

Arabella was charged with defamation. A criminal case couldn’t be pursued until Dorian was out of surgery, and making a false police report could be dismissed with a fine, especially for a first-time offender.

Arabella had paid her fine and was released in less than a day,

Reporters were waiting for her as she stepped out of the police station.

On the news, Arabella, with tears streaming down her face, looked into the camera. “I framed my foster father because he really did molest me when I was a child, I wanted revenge, so I did what I did.

I was so young and defenseless, but I remember everything he did to me. I have nightmares every night… I can’t let him go unpunished!”

to Vivienne. “After what she did to Dorian, she still has

days Dorian was in custody, she and Thaddeus had been the target of gossip and even an attempted

released, but he had to be rushed into surgery. It seemed like Arabella just refused to

on the screen. She felt that merely bankrupting the Hawthorn family had been

calm down.” Percival tried to soothe her. “We

reporter on TV asked Arabella, “Miss Arabella, if what you’re saying is true,

“It’s all my fault!”

full of sorrow and shame as she stood by Arabella and addressed the reporters. “I was the one who asked Arabella not to report it for the

to protect her. I thought if I, an old woman, treated her well enough, she could forget what happened. But

forgive Arabella

Chapter La

she and Arabella hugged each other, both

with rage. She couldn’t believe that her own family

not realize that her lies could

many saying that if Dorian really was a pedophile who molested Arabella when she was a child, then

the derogatory comments about Dorian on Twitter as tears began streaming

when

loved pushing

the video Coral had given

mother had installed a camera to monitor her daughter’s studies. For many years, the stored videos were never deleted. When Coral heard. that Dorian was in trouble, she