The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 353

Jasper Perez clutched a forged portrait Vivienne had given him, exhaling a wistful breath.

After hours of standing there, long after the gallery had emptied, he couldn’t shake the feeling that the silhouette in the artwork was eerily familiar

Yet it didn’t quite match the memory of his daughter, Sasha, who had gone missing years ago.

Perhaps it was just his age playing tricks on him. After all, Sasha was just a ten–year–old kid when she vanished, and the woman in the portrait appeared to be in her mid–thirties. The gap in years made it hard to draw any solid connection

Or was it simply because of the mole?

Just then, a man in a crisp black suit hurried over, “Dad, you had me worried sick! You can’t just disappear like that. The brothers would have my head if anything happened to you!”

It was Jasper’s fourth son, Yuri Perez

Jasper gave him a side–eye and carried a commanding aura, “Since when do I have to report my whereabouts to you?”

“I didn’t mean it like that! Yuri said with a hint of frustration in his voice.

Ever since Sasha’s disappearance, Jasper had never looked at his sons the same way. He had treated them with cold shoulders and hard stares over thirty years worries us, you know?”

Yuri sighed. “Your health is not well, Dad If you go somewhere, at least let me know

Jasper scoffed, “Instead of worrying about me, why don’t you put that energy into finding

“We’ve already sent people out to look again,” Yuri replied. Sasha?”

Jasper peered down at the portrait again, then handed it to Yuri, “Take a look at this: The woman daughter named Vivienne.”

picture has passed away, leaving a you

“The mole is so identical to Sasha’s.

from? Jasper shot back, emotionless. “Vivienne has a fiancé, Percival, who is from the affluent Ellington family. Look into them

said,

had been exhaustive and fruitless despite it took the

found something but the lead was soon cut off. It didn’t come to him that the picture, in which a woman having an identical mole behind the ear

lead, he got an intuition that the light had pierced

disdain after shooting him a look, “Just go and don’t dawdle. I don’t want to

bristled internally Some families favored their sons, but Jasper? He appeared to hold a grudge against them as if they were strays in the

worse than strays. Strays at least got scraps from his table, while his sons were lucky to

Jasper alone, so he said, “Let’s get you home, Dad

bring his dad home, his brothers might very well tear him apart and feed him to

until Sasha is found And I want you to buy me a townhouse. I’ll be staying here for a

and he needed to find out why this young woman seemed so oddly close to

dangerous here You’re coming home with me! Yun

head it was followed by a fierce reprimand “Just do as i say will you? What dangers are you talking about? Do you see any gangs? If so,

Yuri was speechless

standing there? Go on, get

but seeing his father’s temper he reluctantly agreed. “Okay I’ll get you

his brothers They’d need to arrange for Jasper’s protection. This old man

Jasper pushed him

is found, I cling to life. Even Death himself can’t take

Yuri sighed in resignation

slumped for a long time and his whole family