Jasper was still wading through a swamp of guilt as he continued, "I've been treating you like a stand-in for my daughter, and I crossed a line. I hope you're not upset. I'm just an old man with selfish desires; I don't want to lose contact with you."
Vivienne snapped back to reality and offered a gentle smile. "It's okay. If you like, I'd be happy to call you 'Grandpa.""
Hearing Vivienne's words, Jasper was overwhelmed with emotion, tears tracing the lines of his weathered face.
She offered to call him 'Grandpa.' How could he not be moved?
Jasper patted Vivienne's hand, struggling for words before finally managing, "Yes, yes, that would be wonderful." With each affirmation, Vivienne felt her own eyes mist over.
Every time she met Jasper, she experienced a peculiar sensation.
It was an instinctual pull to be close to him.
Not a duty, not an obligation, but an innate desire for closeness.
When she received the paternity test results, her emotions were anything but calm.
She was elated.
Happy for herself and for her mother.
If her mother was indeed Sasha, then whatever her fake family had done, it did not matter to her anymore.
In this world, there were true family members who cherished her, protected her, and loved her.
Vivienne and Jasper talked for hours, the air filled with laughter and warm conversation.
After dinner, Vivienne left the Perez Mansion.
She did not call Percival to pick her up; instead, she strolled down the road, her cool face set in solemn contemplation.
was no mistake in her
was definitely related to
mistake lay with the
not want Jasper to recognize
her mother's disappearance have another
a slow smile crept across
Perez family,
discreet black Bentley inched along the road so slowly that it was
back seat,
Vivienne a ride?" Thomas,
"No need. Vivienne is in a mood; she needs
he did not understand how Percival could read Vivienne's mood
at the Perez residence, Jasper remained seated in the
leaving. She asked me to give this to you," Yuri
savings throughout the
in Sea City and had grown
background was
was the child Jasper had found during a crackdown on RST, barely four at the time, remembering only that
a bracelet engraved with the initials
Willa was the
and young Willa, innocent and alone, was taken in by
follow her everywhere, calling
to train in martial arts to
her part, had always regarded him as
asking if
knew her
Jasper's attempts to guide her, she was adamant and determined to leave the Perez family to
Willa had never been outside of the Perez family's protection, and he feared what dangers she might encounter on
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