The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 143

By the time the semis managed to move out of the way, Vivienne and Percival were already out of sight.

On the way back to Bay Estates, Leopold called. ‘Percival, what’s the situation?”

“We lost them.” Percival responded, his face pale from blood loss. “Did you catch anyone?”

“We were too late. Leopold replied bitterly, “They had already left by the time we got there. But they left one of the semis behind. We might get something from it.”

“Alright, they fired shots.” Percival said quietly, “We should have the car towed and check where the bullets came from.”

“They shot at you?” Leopold immediately became anxious. “Are you both okay?”

“I took a bullet to the left arm. Percival replied before hanging up and leaning back against the seat.

“What’s wrong?” Vivienne asked, noticing his face was growing paler. It was even slightly blue. Given the amount of blood he had lost, this didn’t make sense.

Upon closer inspection, she noticed that the blood seeping from Percival’s wound was a dark purple color. This had been masked by his black shirt earlier

“The bullet was likely poisoned.’ Percival murmured with his eyes still closed.

say so earlier?! Vivienne quickly gave him a

the car.

be distracted.” Percival sighed, his main concem had been Vivienne’s safety, especially since their

I gave you?” Vivienne asked, her

people who needed them more. Percival replied

survival skills, he had given all the life-saving

didn’t say anything and just sped back to

they couldn’t go to the hospital. It would raise too

unrecognizable car in the underground parking lot, Vivienne used a car cover to hide the bullet holes. Then she helped Percival into the elevator, and

apartment, Vivienne had Percival remove his shirt to reveal his muscular upper body. She inspected his wound on the couch and found that half of his arm had

Wolf venom!

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quickly retrieved an antidote for Percival to

had waited any longer, his whole arm would have decayed and

antidote, Percival’s

medical

“Okay.” Percival nodded.

a small surgical knife to cut through the muscle of Percival’s left

of sweat

remove the bullet and place

had been drained, Percival’s left arm gradually returned to

normal color.

medicine I have can’t completely detoxify you. need two more herbs. Star Grass and Seven-Poison Flower. But