The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Vivienne was cool as a cucumber as she scrolled through her phone, eventually pulling up a photo and passing the device to Belle.

“Is this the mark of White Tiger?” She asked, her voice steady and casual.

Belle snorted with a smirk. “So what if it is? Even if you found the mark, you won’t catch him.”

Vivienne let out a dismissive laugh. “How can you talk such a big game without ever having seen the guy?”

That caught Belle off guard. She did not expect Vivienne to know that White Tiger had chosen to not work with her but with the true boss of GTO, the elusive F-Poison.

In other words, White Tiger had not even considered her despite her being GTO’s right-hand woman.

Vivienne gulped down her coke a little too fast and burped without a hint of embarrassment, which made Percival chuckle softly as he patted her back gently.

“Easy there, no one’s fighting you for it.”

Vivienne flashed him a coy smile and a look that said more than words could.

Across from them, Belle cursed under her breath, “You two really have no shame.”

Unfazed, Vivienne leaned against Percival’s shoulder. “So, spill it—where’s your mother?”

Belle’s eyes widened in shock as if she had heard something unspeakable. It took her a moment to gather herself.

Indeed, Vivienne was asking about her mother!

After a pause, Belle finally found her voice. “What nonsense are you spouting now?”

Percival pulled out a document. “This was found in the GTO lab. It confirms that you and your boss are mother and daughter.”

Belle was taken aback. Vivienne had managed to dig up something no one in GTO knew—their connection.

The document was a blood analysis report with her name and F-Poison’s, indicating a maternal link.

adopted you, and you’ve been working for her

shown me. Don’t stand there acting all high and mighty.

for all that kindness your mother showed you, you

the room and grabbed Belle by the throat with a grip that could

that Belle was F-Poison’s adopted daughter; she had uncovered

was to her mother on the very day

Belle’s fingerprints were on it, preserved in an evidence

a decade, the device still held a charge—a testament to the technology her mother had tinkered with. Even the devices GTO used were from

a real penchant for

under Vivienne’s vice-like grip, her

never… never

“Vivienne, she was only fifteen ten years

then reluctantly let

threat, much less at fifteen. But Vivienne knew the last call to her mother came from that phone—if not Belle, then it

bore no

One possibility remained.

and Belle

used her print, F-Poison had

Belle’s alleged crimes could

Better come clean about all your sins. If not, well,

sooner had Vivienne finished than two figures emerged from

them. “Traitors! Don’t you fear F-Poison

to shreds?

jabbed the needle into Belle’s neck, emptying the contents as Belle’s body convulsed, then stiffened until

we’ll take it from here. We’ll make

of GTO’s reputation for

one day, her former subordinates would

Percival left

out from under a bed, Percival suddenly remembered something and looked at Vivienne.

Rowan just addressed Vivienne as the Young Master? Since

paused, then asked, “Mr. Wolf, you

Percival retorted with a hint