The Million-Dollar Heart (Percival and Vivienne) novel Chapter 60

When Arabella got home, she went straight to her room without even having dinner.

She wasn't hungry or anything. She just didn't feel like eating.

The thought of Vivienne weaseling her way into a teaching job at Class Eighteen got her all sorts of worked up.

Who did she think she was becoming a teacher?

If that were the case, with her smarts, she could be a teacher too.

But that was not what she wanted. She wanted to get into Elite University on her own merit, and then climb her way to the top.

The sound of knocking came from outside the door, followed by the nanny's voice, "Ms. Arabella, Doreen's here. Your grandma wants you downstairs."

Hearing the title gave her the creeps.

Before Vivienne came back, she was the lady of the Hawthorn family. After Vivienne returned, even though she didn't live at the family estate, people started calling her Ms. Arabella, like they were reminding her she was adopted.

Arabella brushed off her thoughts. She got up, opened the door, and went downstairs.

When she saw who was on the couch in the living room, she froze.

It was Doreen!

She married into the Churchill family.

Last time at the party, Doreen asked Arabella to help her daughter with her illness, but then she never came back.

She thought the story from the party got out and Doreen changed her mind, asking Vivienne to help instead.

Thinking about the party, Arabella was really pissed at Vivienne.

Ever since Joseph's affair was exposed, Octavia had been pushing for a divorce.

Joseph flat-out refused, so there was a big family feud that hadn't ended yet.

Of course, Grandma looked down on the nanny and quickly kicked her out, but Joseph still insisted on keeping the nanny and refused to divorce Octavia, which was infuriating.

What was worse, Joseph took his anger out on her, thinking her behavior was inappropriate and put him in a tough spot.

"Ms. Hawthorn!"

Seeing Arabella come downstairs, Doreen got up immediately. She looked sorry and said, "I'm sorry, I said I'd bring my daughter to see you for treatment, but she's been really traumatized after the car accident. I've tried to get her to go out, but she refuses." Doreen looked helpless. "I came today to ask if you could come over to my place to help my daughter."

Arabella was confused. Didn't word get out that Vivienne cured Isolde's illness?

"Don't worry, I won't let you make the trip for nothing. I'll pay you."

"Ms. Doreen, you're too polite. Bertha Baker is a friend of my grandma. We're like family, so never mind," Arabella said with a smile, "I'll go with Ms. Doreen to check on Ms. Faye."

Doreen breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you so much!"

She paused, then asked, "When would be a good time?"

She was really anxious! Super anxious!

Her daughter's illness had been keeping her up at night.

Her daughter had been out of school for half a year, and hadn't been in the mood to study. She was about to take the entrance exam, and she didn't know what to do if her daughter continued like this.

Arabella thought for a moment and said, "How about the weekend? You know, exams are coming up, and students are under a lot of pressure."