The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 750

Vivienne's fingers froze atop her phone screen, Griffin's contact highlighted. The sudden pause was punctuated by a sense of déjà vu.

A café?

Why did that sound so hauntingly familiar?

She pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration. "How could I have forgotten about this?"

Meanwhile, in a café, Victoria perched in a reserved booth, her gaze drifting over the bustling crowd through the panoramic windows.

Irritation flickered in her eyes.

Vivienne!

She really had some nerve!

Twice now!

That wretched woman had stood her up twice!

Calls unanswered, texts ignored, just like she had vanished off the face of the earth. How could Richard have ever approved of such a granddaughter-in-law, bringing shame to the Ellington name?

And Percival!

Birds of a feather indeed. Both just as unreliable as the other!

Victoria gnashed her teeth on the freshly served scones as if she were biting into Vivienne and Percival, those two good-for-nothings. "Let's go find War God! Damn it, I refuse to believe I can't handle the two o you!"

Over at Northway City, within the Grimshaw estate-a structure reminiscent of a middle-age castle-Oliver Grimshaw sat at Asher's bedside.

snatched a cup from the desk and hurled it at Isaac's forehead. "Useless! Can't even handle a simple task, and

"Please, forgive me, Patriarch!"

the Grimshaws clung

a young woman could be so formidable. I suspect she

twenty-something-year-old possibly be? Go on, inquire about it. See if there's a family with such a prodigy. Wouldn't those old coots be

of the five major families, had no

old fools possibly boast to have such a talent? And if they did, he'd have eliminated

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placed this opportunity before us, then it's destined to

...

a day later, Victoria was still fuming over being stood

for the sake of my mother who once aided you, could you please convey a message to the Ellingtons? Vivienne

the tabletop intermittently. "You're too impulsive. Vivienne and Percival are both shrewd; you've had past issues with them. It's no wonder they don't trust you." "They could just

went back on their

remained neutral, though his opinion of

girl was definitely

vent. "Richard's gone senile; I

Arthur's gaze darkened momentarily.

indeed a little too

rest had chosen her to lead the new

deal with the Abernathys was the most I could

want with that weapon, I can't intervene. You want Vivienne's trust? That's on

were

and concealed her as

heritage, Victoria had

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