The Million-Dollar Heart

Chapter 353

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,

taken aback, “The mole is so identical to

“Vivienne has a fiancé, Percival, who is from the affluent Ellington family. Look

get right on it!” Yuri said, a surge

exhaustive and fruitless despite

It didn’t come to him that

intuition that the light had pierced through the constant

don’t dawdle. I don’t want

bristled internally Some families favored their sons, but Jasper? He appeared to hold a grudge

scraps from his table, while his sons were lucky to get

he said, “Let’s get you home,

home, his brothers might very well

“Home? I’m not going anywhere until Sasha is found And I want you to buy me a townhouse. I’ll be staying

he needed to find out why this young

stay in Riverwood? It’s dangerous here You’re

finish, Jasper swung his cane, striking Yun on the head it was followed by a fierce reprimand “Just do as i say will you? What dangers are you

Yuri was speechless

Go on, get

protest, but seeing his father’s temper he reluctantly agreed. “Okay I’ll

quickly inform his brothers They’d need to arrange for Jasper’s protection. This

father, but Jasper pushed him away. “Since when do

of expression, “Until Sasha is found, I cling to life.

Yuri sighed in resignation

whole family told him to recuperate. But the stubborn old cap refused to

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