The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 160

Thomas shook his head.

“No, I’ve covertly checked out every student. So far, I haven’t found anything unusual.”

“We must continue searching.” Percival’s voice was gravelly. “That girl is the key to investigating what went wrong with Lark’s last mission. We have to find her.”

“Understood,” replied Thomas. “But, during our investigation, we found out that, besides us, two other groups are also on the lookout for this girl, one being the GTO, and the other seems to be the Nine Mystics Society.”

“Why on earth would the Nine Mystics Society get involved?”

The Nine Mystics Society was an incredibly ancient organization. They were shrouded in mystery and wielded enormous power; they were even more elusive than the GTO.

The people of the Nine Mystics Society seldom made their moves.

Yet this time, they were mobilizing for this girl.

“We haven’t figured that out yet.” Thomas shook his head. “All we know is that Lark is tangled in too many secrets.”

Just then, Vivienne, who had finished setting the revision schedule for the remaining half–month and managed to settle the transfer student, Coral, heard the name “Lark” coming from Thomas.

Her eyes narrowed subtly as her gaze rested on Percival’s back for a moment with a barely detectable glint in her eyes.

A moment later, she walked over. “What about Lark?”

Percival gave Thomas a look.

Thomas immediately responded. “A friend of mine has recently taken to bird–keeping and ended up with a lark, which is a protected species, and got fined.”

Vivienne didn’t press further. Her eyes were fleetingly scrutinizing the faces of Percival and Thomas.

“Everything arranged?” Percival asked Vivienne.

“Yes.” Vivienne nodded. “We’re down to the last physical education class for the seniors. When do you plan to schedule it?”

“The day after tomorrow afternoon.”

With the college entrance exams just half a month away, the physical education class couldn’t possibly be scheduled in the last week before the exams.

“Alright.” Vivienne nodded and headed towards the staff office.

Percival followed her after a glance at Thomas, who left on his own.

pair ascended the staircase together, bumping into Felix, who was descending with a stack of papers. They exchanged polite

at the duo, sensing

Vivienne felt a bit

Lark…

her

Percival investigating

it seemed like they were

information Matthew had found and her own investigations, the girl she was looking for was indeed among the seniors

information and even observing all the senior students, she still couldn’t

to the information she had, the member of her mother’s team who disappeared after their last mission was very good at hiding and impersonation, often playing the role of

had passed on his skills to his daughter, which

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few bags of nuts, Recalling the way Percival had playfully fed

had started to feel differently

living with him for so long, she never investigated

uncover something

indeed swayed

she felt like a bucket

had almost gotten lost in Percival’s affection and

things needed to be resolved

and Percival needed to settle

she looked at the stern man beside her, her

a friend, not a

3 a.m., a figure emerged from Vivienne’s room in Bay

and Percival had messed up last time, had been tidied up

been to this study more than once, yet she

the room, finally stopping at the bookshelf where she had found the box with the combination lock. The

date to unlock the box, she found

long while in silence, then locked the box

house, she finally

key into the lock and quietly opened

However, she used a mild sedative, not noticing that when she sprayed

walked in and picked up Percival’s phone from the bedside table. She had already checked his computer during

the

when she saw

It was her birthday.

His handsome face softened in a way

took out a minicomputer, connected it to Percival’s phone through the network, and copied all the content within. Even the deleted content was recovered and