The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

After splitting up with Dracon, Diana once again sought out the enigmatic F-Poison. This time, the rendezvous was in a downtown apartment, a far cry from the labyrinthine alleys of their last meeting.

“That’s all Flynn said, nothing else,” Diana grumbled reluctantly. “When are you going to deal with Vivienne? If she doesn’t bite the dust soon, our partnership is over!”

F-Poison replied nonchalantly, “Ms. Perez, who exactly are you losing your temper with?”

Diana clamped her mouth shut, though the annoyance simmering within her refused to subside, making her incredibly uncomfortable.

Suddenly, F-Poison’s eyes narrowed, her gaze turning icy. She lunged forward like a bolt of lightning, grasping Diana’s throat, “You brought a tail with you?”

“A tail? I have no idea what you’re talking about!” Diana gasped for air, her eyes wide with terror.

F-Poison squinted and tapped her earpiece, “Quincy, take them out. No mercy.”

“Roger that!” Quincy’s resounding reply came through the earpiece.

With her orders in hand, Quincy checked her phone for the location sent to her.

Following the directions, she soon spotted Willa attempting to slip away.

Given she was young, Quincy perfectly played the part of an innocent child as she brushed past Willa.

But in her hand was a poison deadly enough to end Willa right on the spot.

Expressionless, Willa crossed paths with the child opposite her, but having grown up in the notorious Perez family, she was no stranger to danger.

As Quincy brushed by her, Willa’s right hand snapped out like a blade, targeting Quincy in a swift motion.

Quincy had not released her poison yet. To save her own skin, she had to change course!

However, the moment she saw Willa’s face, her counterattack hesitated.

girl’s restraint and realized she did not strike

you?”

whispered with a lowered voice,

countless thoughts raced through her

before her, but she could sense the absence of murderous

dead seemed the best move to avoid drawing more assassins. Plus, she

Willa complied with

at Quincy, she pretended to collapse after Quincy coughed

the hit, feigning

connected to her earpiece to report, “Boss, the target is down,” and snapped a

the connection after confirming the hit, oblivious to Diana’s shock at recognizing

relieved her own secret dealings with F-Poison had not been

at Diana’s stunned expression and asked, “What are

me. That’s why they sent

me, you always had a tail. Only this one was comparatively talented, so she managed to

secretly relieved. Clearly, F-Poison had no idea that the person she had just ordered killed was the person she had been looking for,

the point of keeping Willa alive when the previous

going; it’s getting late,” Diana said, thinking it was time to return

two henchmen came out

follow her and cut her

henchmen. “No need;

Willa to a safe place. Willa, suddenly alert, grabbed Quincy by the

guard by Willa’s prowess, realized that if they had fought for real earlier, she would be dead in

and said with

why Vivienne and Percival’s

previously come to search for her were all diverted away by Sasha, and they only wanted to find her. However, this girl had

do you want?” Willa did not let go but

with no choice, Quincy presented her phone, showing a coded message from Vivienne: Find Willa,