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.
no mistake in her paternity
related to the
mistake lay with the
want Jasper to
her mother's
circled her mind, a
Perez family,
discreet black Bentley inched along the road so slowly that it
back seat, silently watching
offer Vivienne a ride?" Thomas, the driver,
"No need. Vivienne is in a mood; she
though he did not understand how
residence, Jasper remained seated in
me to give this to you," Yuri
Willa's savings throughout the years, along with
served as his bodyguard in Sea City and had grown up by his
Willa's background
a crackdown on RST, barely four at the time, remembering
wore a bracelet engraved with the
knew Willa was the
had fled, and young Willa,
Sasha disappeared, Willa would follow her everywhere, calling her 'sister' as if they
ages. Once her tears dried, she approached Jasper with a request to train in martial arts to protect him in Sasha's stead. Throughout the years, Jasper never
part, had always regarded him as
Willa confronted him with her bracelet, asking if her father was the
on, Willa knew her
Jasper's attempts to guide her, she was adamant and determined to leave
Perez family's protection, and he feared what dangers she might encounter on her own. Though skilled, her naivety
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