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

contact me once." Sadie felt deeply grateful

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

that day because

instead? Though, it's understandable that you didn't

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

your real dad, regardless of what you call

Sadie blinked.

if I didn't call

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

I left because I

you and your mom to leave that

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

several years before I

then, you two

daughter, what brings you to your father today? Is it because you don't have enough money?

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