The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 776

Leopold and Matthew had just finished loading the Abernathy family into the van, including Cormac, when the stench inside hit them like a wave, almost driving them back out the door. But seeing Vivienne and the others frozen by the bedside, Leopold steeled himself and stepped inside.

The woman on the bed was a shadow of her former self, her hair tangled and matted like weeds upon the pillow. Her face was streaked with dirt, and it looked like the Abernathys hadn't bothered to clean her in ages. If it weren't for the faint rise and fall of her chest, Leopold might have mistaken her for a corpse.

Wait a minute!

Those features...

How come she looked a bit like Percival?

Realizing this, Leopold's pupils dilated, his finger pointing shakily at the woman on the bed.

Then he glanced at Percival, whose stony face was unreadable, and noticed the air around him growing colder and heavier. Leopold took a step back, feeling as if his throat had been seized. He couldn't manage to utter a complete sentence.

Finally, it was Vivienne who broke the silence. "Mr. Wolf, let's get her out of here first."

She was genuinely shocked. They had only come to fetch a witness back to Rivenwood, and here they were, stumbling upon the very person Percival had spent years searching for.

Mr. Wolf's aunt, the Ellington heiress-Holly Ellington!

"Gavin Abernathy!"

The torrential rain outside devoured any trace of light, leaving their car in the darkness, save for the occasional flash of headlights that flickered before Vivienne's eyes. Percival, with lips pressed together and eyes as cold as ice, stared into the abyss beyond the window.

Time seemed to crawl by.

trust me, I will heal your aunt." Percival's grim expression

up inside him toward Gavin

would be placed in an unknown hospital with professional care to at least keep her alive.

back the covers, even he couldn't suppress the rising

where that foul stench lingering around the

Holly's withered body, wounds

moment, Percival felt

But the agony he felt for Holly and the hatred for the Abernathys set his

deeper into Vivienne's stomach, his clenched eyes

hand gently caressing his hair as a chill flashed in her eyes.

recall the last time he had seen such a chilling expression

warrior lineage was formidable, but was Vivienne

couldn't just hand their life over to

glanced at the

"Hand it over."

passed the phone to

yet tinged with anger, came

need to guess; she

"Ms. Vivienne, Gavin had people dig up Mrs. Littleton's parents' graves. They've taken the ashes and are threatening that if we don't hand over the secret recipe within three days, they'll scatter her parents' ashes

she inhaled deeply.

head. "Not well. She's been muttering about running out of time.

flickered in Vivienne's eyes. "Stay at the

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