The following day, Vivienne was still curled up in Percival’s arms, sleeping like a log.

Trending topics about her were skyrocketing, with a mix of comments from fans and possibly paid trolls sprawling below the headlines.

[Hawthorn Family Heiress Rampage]

[Vivienne Bullying]

A uniform wave of negative press.

[Who is this Vivienne? Never heard of her. How dare she mess with our sweet Ramona?]

[Poor Ramona, what is her team doing? They set her up with this no-name brand, and she gets harassed at the party!]

[Hawthorn family perfume? Our Ramona was doing them a favor representing them, and this is how they repay her!]

Vivienne was jolted awake by the insistent ringing of her phone.

Willa’s voice came through, and Vivienne muffled by sleep, “What’s up, Aunt Willa?”

“Vivienne, come to the hospital. Someone broke in last night.”

Vivienne and Percival rushed to the hospital in record time. In the ward, Willa was already seated by Karen’s bedside waiting for them.

Vivienne, usually composed, looked unusually serious. Without waiting for Willa to speak, she asked, “What happened?”

Percival followed closely behind her. “What’s that in your hand?”

remained calm, the first to notice the syringe Willa was holding. In the shaft of morning sunlight, the clear liquid in the white syringe shimmered with a

asleep. “I can tell their target was specific. They weren’t trying to kill your mother; they wanted her to test

drugs?” Vivienne’s gaze finally fixed on the potion in the syringe, “But why involve my

handed the syringe to Vivienne,

asked, “Vivienne, how much do you know about the ancient

that, Vivienne paused, “Apart from the Perez and Martinez families, there’s the Littleton and Abernathy

some knowledge of, she turned to Percival, “Mr. Wolf,

slowly. “I only knew of

secrets unknown

information was scant; without these individuals revealing themselves, they might

bring this up without reason. She inspected the syringe in her hand and then said, “Aunt Willa, are you suggesting that the attack on my

years tracking down the F-Poison, but

the lesser-known families. At the pinnacle

including the Sheldons would make

martial skills

and Abernathy families, there remained the Grimshaw

if any of them are in cahoots with F-Poison,” Willa continued, pulling out a humanoid figure from under the bed, “but

jumped out of their skins at Willa’s

himself, ‘Scared the daylights out of me. Vivienne’s aunt is as fierce as she is—does she really think she

Thomas had to agree.

tough as

distance herself from the two men,

suddenly crouched down, “Is this

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