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 well all

me once." Sadie felt deeply grateful

have been able to live a peaceful life at the Russells' place all these years if her mother had not cut

that day because she

found us instead? Though, it's

living happily with my dad all these years, and I never want to go back to living in that stinking ditch." Esmond's expression darkened when he heard Sadie referring to Vince as her

real dad, regardless of what you call anyone else," he said

Sadie blinked.

if

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

because I

expect you and your mom to leave that

make a living for a year and then come

before I earned enough money

by then, you two were already

I earned on? "My sweet daughter, what brings 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

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