The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

In the dead of night, with the lights off and still in the bedroom!

“Damn it, Percival! What have you done to my daughter? She’s still a minor!”

Percival looked into Dorian’s fuming eyes with a hint of resignation, “We were just talking.”

“Talking? Why in the dark? Were you two kissing like Isolde said, right here in the room?” Thaddeus giggled behind his hand.

Isolde had spilled everything to Thaddeus, including when she overheard Vivienne and Percival kissing in the bedroom!

Dorian’s eyes seemed to bulge even more.

Cordelia’s cheeks flushed as she pulled Thaddeus away. “Thaddeus, stop making things up. Vivienne and Percival were just… doing homework. Yeah, that’s it. Now you better finish yours.”

Thaddeus snickered and scampered off to his room with his backpack.

Percival deliberately avoided Dorian’s gaze and cleared his throat, “Mom, Dad, I should head out.”

With that, Percival made a beeline for the door.

The more he thought about Thaddeus’s words, the guiltier he felt!

Where the heck was Leopold when he was supposed to be on the lookout?

Leopold and Anna were indeed on duty, standing guard with due diligence.

When Percival emerged from the house, Leopold dropped his guard and approached. “All sorted out, Percival?”

Percival responded with a swift kick to Leopold’s rear. “Didn’t you see someone go upstairs?”

Anna and Leopold looked baffled, nodding in unison.

“We saw, we even texted you.”

Especially Leopold, rubbing his backside with a woebegone expression. He had sent Percival the message the moment he saw Dorian’s family within thirty feet!

Percival glanced at his phone, and sure enough, there was a message, which he had missed while with Vivienne.

throat, Percival pointed at Anna and

to Leopold. “You’re driving me

in trouble with

look. “After you drop me off, do five hundred push-ups and six hundred

was the picture of shock. Push-ups and sit-ups were one thing, but why

about to split up,

HQ to

in Weststart City. Wolf leads the team.

vanished from their faces. Anna wanted to speak, but Percival cut her off. “You stick with

saluted crisply, “Yes,

and Leopold set out at

brow furrowed deeply,

Weststart City, a place known for its

“It was all very abrupt; I don’t know the specifics. But Ms. Vivienne, something doesn’t feel

nodded in agreement. “I

appearance of White Tiger in Weststart City,

a mission, including the command structure, snipers, and such. They

heads-up to plan

and death; they could not afford to act rashly for the sake of

Agency had been tracking CK and White Tiger as its

capture such a high-profile target with no

brow, “Anna,

her coat, checked her sidearm,

Agency HQ, Percival and his team geared up in combat attire and boarded the transport to Weststart City. Only en route did the team

yourself with the basic layout,” Percival commanded from

would be in the field,

the terrain. Thomas’s second squad covered the perimeter, and

already throwing a fit in the car, and it was not because they were heading deep into enemy territory—it was because Percival was with

the head honcho. You shouldn’t be on the

the one supposed to stay back and oversee the safety of

and to top it off, the deputy director,

headsets were linked to the command vehicle on-site, and Micah heard everything loud and

all; the whole situation was out of order, a

person Percival had managed