Sadie frowned at Esmond, who looked like a rough old man, with dissatisfaction.

You're my dad? You were the one who used to beat and scold my mom after I was born?" She smiled disdainfully.

Esmond did not refute her accusation.

"My temper wasn't the greatest back then.

I was young and didn't have a job, so I vented my frustrations on your mom.

That was my fault.

But I've changed, Sadie.

Now, come and let me take a look at you.

I haven't seen you since you were eight years old.

you well all these

really heartless to not even contact me once." Sadie

peaceful life at the Russells' place all these years if

Esmond that day because she needed

it's understandable that you didn't come to find

to go back to living in that stinking ditch." Esmond's

of what you call anyone else,"

Sadie blinked.

wouldn't still be alive if I didn't call him

you left?" Esmond, feeling guilty about the past, responded, "The past is the past, and there's

because I had no

and your mom to leave

a living for a year and then come back, to improve our lives, but it wasn't easy making a living

took several years before I earned

by then, you two were already

you to your father today? Is it because you don't have enough money? Is it because that old man refuses to spend money on you and your mom already?" Esmond

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