The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Calista froze.

Vivienne?

Vivienne was the Specter Healer? How was that even possible? How could she be the Specter Healer?

No way! Absolutely no way!

While Calista was lost in thought, Vivienne curled her lips into a smile. “The lab report from yesterday that I let you get your hands on was meant for your eyes only.”

With a flick of her wrist, Vivienne removed the needles from Calista’s pressure points.

“You’re Mr. B!” Calista gasped, her eyes widening in disbelief.

Hearing the answer she wanted, Vivienne said, “Mr. Wolf, we can leave now; the others should be arriving soon.”

Calista grabbed Vivienne’s arm, “No, you’re not Mr. B. Who are you, really?”

Vivienne shrugged her off with a cool detachment, “You talk too much.”

With that, she headed downstairs.

Before Calista could wrap her head around what was happening, Percival knocked her out with a chop to the neck.

Dragging her by the leg, he hauled her down the stairs.

“Mr. Wolf, do you always have to be so rough? Can’t you find a more subtle approach?” Vivienne clicked her tongue.

Jeffrey was still nursing a fracture, Henry wasn’t faring much better, and now Calista was being dragged away too.

Talk about brute force.

“It’s efficient. I’m not skilled with the needles like you are,” Percival replied nonchalantly.

As long as it shuts them up, it works.

Vivienne didn’t know what to say, but she wondered if Percival might one day turn to domestic violence.

down at her petite frame, she questioned whether she

her drift and touched her head with his free

if he did, he probably couldn’t take her

seemed to follow

fluttering, “Only a jerk would have ‘I am a good man’ written all over his

Percival was left speechless.

That hit home. Babe!

Wolf. Even if you did lay a hand on me, it would just mean a midnight chat with my mom by your bedside. A little heart-to-heart over coffee,

his mother-in-law might actually be rising from her

felt a chill run down his spine

with you too. They might gift the Ellington family with an

Percival was rendered silent.

isn’t a simple task,” Vivienne clicked her tongue. “The old man is exceptionally protective, and if

Push him too far, and he might just change your destiny, maybe even to that of a beggar. The kind that faces eighty-one

got the message. Champion of ensnaring husbands!

an arm around Vivienne, his voice seductive, whispering in her ear, “Vivienne, would you

was magnetic, sending shivers down Vivienne’s spine. She raised an eyebrow,

tonight, and I’ll show you exactly what ‘harmonious and loving’

was Vivienne

Okay!

She blushed.

were still conscious, she would probably ask, “Are you two even human? Here I am being dragged by the leg, and you’re flirting? Have you no

Percival and Vivienne believed there was no need to consider her feelings, as they didn’t

silent, Percival teased her earlobe

her throat, “Ahem!

turned

Vivienne blushing was quite a sight.

He didn’t tease her further and followed her

towards Richard’s bedroom, “Grandpa, you can wake up

“No, I’ll sleep a bit

“So committed to playing

door, Percival handed Calista over

her up like a sack of

a navigation system that was