In Victoria's backyard.

The room was a spacious forty square meters, with two king-sized beds laid out like in a hotel double room.

Victoria and Harrison each claimed a bed, with a couple of nightstands separating them, a casual gap that nonetheless felt like a chasm.

The room was brightly lit, and as Victoria scrolled through her phone, she suddenly sat up and turned to Harrison. "Why did you help me today?"

Harrison's fingers paused on the page he was flipping, and he looked up with a bemused expression. "You're my wife, aren't you? Who else am I supposed to help, Sophie?

Let's face it, I'm your husband, at least on paper. Our interests are aligned, and besides, we're in this business deal together, right?"

The man gave a small, secretive smile, the lamplight casting twinkling stars in his eyes.

You had to admit, Harrison had a certain charm about him.

No wonder Kaitlyn was completely taken in by him back when he was just a twenty-something.

Victoria would have been defenseless too..

Lost in thought, her gaze still wary as she eyed Harrison, she quipped, "Playing the doting husband now, are we?"

"Well, now that you've seen behind the mask, what's the point in keeping it up?" Harrison's eyes returned to his book without lifting his head.

After a brief pause, he looked up again. "By the way, about Richard Ellington, I've made contact. Tomorrow, you'll meet him."

you even get close to the Ellingtons? Does Richard know who you are? Did he not toss you out on your ear?!" She was like

to throw me out? I took a strand of your hair

and emotionless. "He's over the moon to know you're his granddaughter. Why

could hardly believe it. She had barely been back to the Abernathy estate these past few days.

forget the past, who your father is. As long

who is smeared online as a homewrecker, a white lotus, now would you?" Victoria frowned and shot him a glance,

At the Ellington Estate.

Percival while still on her way back to the

patriarch wanted them home for dinner caught her off-guard, but she agreed

on Tyler's injuries and made a quick stop at the lab before arriving at

was already waiting in

who could make it from the Ellington family

"Vivienne!"

beaming. She hugged Vivienne's legs, pushing past Percival by more than a step. "I've missed you so much. You never come home to

pouted up at her, only to be playfully scolded by the approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde. Not everyone has the luxury of lounging around

"I

that's what you do," Percival

Holly's daughter came to see me today, and I want Percival and Vivienne to accompany me to meet her tomorrow. There's going to be

now."

the others. By the time

frustration and bemusement on her

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