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.

has hidden you

contact me once." Sadie felt

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

to find Esmond that day because she needed

it's understandable that you didn't come to

to living in that stinking ditch." Esmond's

your real dad, regardless of what you call anyone

Sadie blinked.

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

after you left?" Esmond, feeling guilty about the past, responded, "The past is the

I left because I had

and your mom to leave

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

took several years before I earned enough money to

by then, you two were

today? Is it because you don't have enough money? Is it because that old

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