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.

mom has hidden you

really heartless to not even contact me once." Sadie felt deeply grateful to

have been able to live a peaceful life at the Russells' place all these years if her

came to find Esmond that day because she needed

us instead? Though, it's understandable that

never want to go back to living in that stinking ditch." Esmond's expression darkened when he heard Sadie referring to Vince as her father, but

what you call anyone else," he said

Sadie blinked.

wouldn't still be alive if I didn't

life Mom and I lived after you left?" Esmond, feeling guilty about the past, responded, "The past is the past, and there's nothing

left because I

didn't expect you and your mom to leave

out to make a living for a year and then come back,

before I earned enough money to

then, you two were already

enough money? Is it because that old man refuses to spend money on you and your mom already?" Esmond

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