The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 236

Percival instantly stiffened up and swept away his previous frail look. He took the initiative to take Vivienne’s hand and climb into Scott’s car

Before leaving, he didn’t forget to instruct the abandoned Leopold on what to do. “Settle Anna in, and watch out for the GTO gang.”

Leopold glanced at Anna and nodded.

Anna exchanged a look with Vivienne, not saying much

After Vivienne and Percival climbed into Scott’s car, she jokingly asked Percival, “Your back’s not hurting anymore?”

Percival immediately bent slightly. He plastered a fragile look on his face as he clutched his left rib, leaning against the car seat without a word. His eyes

were filled with a hint of watery grievance as he looked at Vivienne His gaze was so tender that it could melt hearts

Vivienne felt goosebumps all over. She thought that if it weren’t for Scott sitting next to them, watching them like a hawk, Percival might have even collapsed into her arms while acting all coquettish.

Vivienne couldn’t help but shudder as she imagined that unbearable scene.

Sitting next to Vivienne, Scott had been observing the interactions between the young couple. Seeing Percival’s coquettish look towards Vivienne made him snort in his heart, thinking it was all pretense and a ploy to woo his daughter.

Although Karen had chosen Percival, she had passed away ten years ago. The Percival of ten years ago was a gentle and refined youth, and Scott had thought him suitable then.

He had wished, if he ever had a daughter, to marry her to Percival.

It was more than a decade later now, and people were prone to change. Percival was obviously no longer his young self. So, for Vivienne’s future happiness, he needed to scrutinize Percival thoroughly.

the Brooks family. It was easier

Brooks Mansion.

swinging back and forth with a frown on her face.

Havenwood this time, she returned to the Brooks family with her

were good enough for her to enter Elite University. But the Brooks family intended to send her abroad to study, so they asked her to

or entering Elite University, she heard the sound of a car horn outside the gate of

and a black stretch imousine, escorted by two other cars, drove

hopped off the swing out of curiosity, wondering when her uncle had taken a

and a pair of long legs stepped out first. The tall figure of the man made Ashley

still exuded an air of elegance. The morning sun dyed his messy hair golden and softened his usually cold, narrow

by the car door and bent slightly, reaching out to help a tall girl out of the

beautiful girl. She was dressed as casually as when she went to Mila’s piano concert. She was wearing a white t–shirt, jeans, and

were even a bit dirty

standing next to the man under the sunlight, there was an indescribable sense of compatibility and match

He glanced at Percival with some displeasure and then looked at

door for his daughter and help her out of the car himself, but the clueless Percival had

quickly walked up to them She reached out

hands and let go, but Ashley grabbed her hand and pulled

go

Scott, waiting for him to take the lead before following at the end out

Ashley to the main house, she took in the sights of the

was an old family with a history spanning a century, and the history of Brooks Mansion could be traced back to a century ago After being built by the Brooks family’s patriarch, it had been refurbished by several

was a time when the Brooks family had fallen out of the Four Prominent Families of Rivenwood They were even facing financial ruin and the potential auction of

from a mysterious power, allowing the Brooks family to rise again and re–enter the Four Promment Families of Rivenwood,

aided by Melissa Spotting Venne, her lace lit up with a smile “Vivienne, who would have thought