The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 785

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."

from the bed, her eyes wide with shock. "Hold on, you-why? How did you even get close to the Ellingtons? Does Richard know who you

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

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

been back to the Abernathy estate these past few

to forget the past, who your father is. As long as you're Holly's daughter, he's willing to welcome you. The doors of the Ellington

let me down, okay? The lawsuit, my reputation, it's all in your hands now. You wouldn't want a husband who is smeared online as a homewrecker, a white lotus, now would you?" Victoria frowned

At the Ellington Estate.

call from Percival while still

them home for

she checked on Tyler's injuries and made a quick stop at the lab before arriving at the Ellington Estate around six in the

was already waiting in

just Percival; nearly everyone who could make it from the Ellington

"Vivienne!"

pushing past Percival

her, only to be playfully scolded by the approaching Percival. "Vivienne's been busy, Isolde. Not everyone

her cheeks. "I do not!

and sleeping, that's what you do," Percival teased, making her sound like a

a reason. 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 a dinner after the meeting, and every member of

now."

old man briskly ascended the stairs, as if to avoid any dissent from Vivienne and the others. By the time they regained their composure and thought to inquire further, Richard had vanished from

frustration and bemusement on her

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