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.

and realized

you?” Willa

lowered voice, “Play dead,

furrowed as countless thoughts raced

whether to trust the girl before her, but she could sense the absence

move to avoid drawing more assassins. Plus, she

complied

at Quincy, she pretended to collapse after

hit, feigning injury to

collapsed, Quincy connected to her earpiece to report, “Boss, the target is down,” and

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

secret dealings with F-Poison had not been

looked up at Diana’s stunned expression and asked, “What are you thinking,

the Perez family already suspects me. That’s why they sent someone to

“Don’t worry. These are all members of the Nine Mystics Society. Whenever you came to meet with me, you always had a tail. Only this one was comparatively talented, so she managed to keep a

killed was the person she had

was for the better. What was the point of keeping Willa alive when

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

watched Diana leave. The next moment, two henchmen came out from

we follow her and

to her henchmen. “No need; those tails can

whisked Willa to a safe place. Willa, suddenly alert, grabbed

they had fought for real

and said with

why Vivienne and

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

do you want?” Willa did not

presented her phone, showing a coded message from