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.
mistake in
related to the
with
want Jasper
her mother's disappearance
these thoughts circled her mind, a slow smile crept across
Perez family,
Bentley inched along the road so slowly that it was
the back
Vivienne a
Vivienne is in a mood; she needs some
nodded, though he did not understand how Percival
Perez residence, Jasper remained seated in the
me to give this to you,"
throughout the years, along with a
had served as his bodyguard in Sea City and had grown up by
background was
crackdown on RST, barely four at the time, remembering only that her name was
wore a bracelet engraved with the
Willa was the
Willa, innocent
Sasha disappeared, Willa would follow her everywhere, calling her 'sister' as if they were
Once her tears dried, she approached Jasper with a request to train in martial arts to protect him in Sasha's
her part, had always regarded him as
bracelet, asking if
that day on, Willa knew her origins
guide her, she was adamant and determined to leave the
feared what
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