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 could

her drift and touched her head with his free hand, speaking earnestly, “I’m a good

if he did, he probably couldn’t take her down.

follow a different

have ‘I am a good

Percival was left speechless.

That hit home. Babe!

she casually looped an arm around Percival’s neck, buddy-buddy style, “Don’t worry, Mr. Wolf. Even if you did lay a hand on me, it would just mean a midnight chat with my mom by your bedside.

but wonder if his mother-in-law

run down

might gift the Ellington family with an occasional bomb, but don’t worry, Mr. Wolf, you have plenty of real estate.

Percival was rendered silent.

“The old man is exceptionally protective, and if he discovers his precious

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

to himself, “Fine! I got the

his voice seductive, whispering in her

She raised

apartment tonight, and I’ll show you exactly

time, it was

Okay!

She blushed.

you two even human? Here I am being dragged by

there was no need to consider her feelings, as they didn’t see Calista as a

Percival teased her earlobe with a smile,

her throat, “Ahem!

that, she turned

blushing was quite a sight. He liked

didn’t tease her further and

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

Richard’s voice boomed, “No,

thinking, “So committed to playing

Percival handed Calista over

her up like a

navigation system that was virtually unseen in the