The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Maddox’s grin froze on his face, and the bowl in his hands clattered to the floor.

Heads turned at the sound.

“Maddox, you just broke Natalia and Yasmine’s favorite bowl, you’re so screwed, man! Say goodbye to your wallet!”

“Oh, Maddox, when will you learn? You handle things like a bull in a china shop, and look what happens!”

“Oopsie, don’t be mad, Natalia and Yasmine, I’ll buy you a new one and make Uncle Maddox here pay up!”

Trying to keep cool, Maddox forced a smile and turned to the girls. “Sorry, Natalia and Yasmine, but I cut my hand pretty bad. Doesn’t anyone feel sorry for me?”

Luke immediately whisked the two kids away. “Girls, remember not to date a guy like this one.”

Yuri and Fredrick also quickly made their exit, unable to watch the embarrassing scene any longer!

After everyone left, Karen pulled out a small bottle of antiseptic powder and sprinkled it on Maddox’s wound, which healed quietly.

“No need to look so surprised, Maddox. Without Frost, I’d have less than a 2% chance.”

Karen smiled at Maddox and added, “Just don’t tell Dad, okay? I don’t want him to worry. Just say I’m off to find Frost’s dad, and it’ll be a long time before I can come back, alright?”

Maddox fought back tears, his eyes reddening but not allowing a single tear to fall.

Even with Vivienne and Karen working together, they only had a 2% chance of success. That left Maddox thinking…

“Sasha, can’t we just not do it?” Maddox struggled with the idea one last time.

“No, we have to do this,” Karen replied with certainty.

Maddox went silent, accepting that this was unstoppable.

a tense game of chess,

neared its end, Jasper suddenly

managed a smile. “Oh, just out

“She’s

chess piece landed with a thud on the board, shaking slightly before coming to

mom is attempting a procedure. It could

She was too chatty tonight, fussing over

“She

of sadness in his voice. “Tell me the truth,

fists, the words barely escaping her lips.

the procedure had only a one

easily repaired

they were about to inject this mysterious ST-1 into Karen and perform brain

wouldn’t even be a one percent chance. And that one percent was only

moist. “Alright, can you promise your grandpa

looked up into his reddened eyes

I’m clueless so she can go

tough on the outside but carried a heavy heart.

she chose to

pretend to be oblivious, letting his precious daughter

the surgeon was his granddaughter, he couldn’t

lost today. Next time, we’ll have your mom win

dropped onto the chessboard from Vivienne’s eye as she

Karen, none of them wanted to put pressure on her. They had chosen to keep things

returned to silence, broken only

out of her room and

head

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