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
related to the
mistake lay with
not want
her mother's disappearance have
mind, a slow smile crept across
Perez family, how
along the road so slowly that it
in the back seat, silently watching Vivienne's retreating
offer Vivienne a ride?" Thomas, the driver,
his head. "No need. Vivienne is in a mood;
nodded, though he did not understand how Percival
Perez residence, Jasper remained seated in
to give this
inside to find all of Willa's savings throughout the years, along with a
and had grown up by his side, raised like
background was
on RST, barely four at the time, remembering only that her
a bracelet engraved
knew Willa was the
fled, and young Willa, innocent and alone, was
follow her everywhere, calling her 'sister' as if
dried, she approached Jasper with a request to train in martial arts to protect him in Sasha's stead. Throughout the years, Jasper never revealed Willa's
part, had always regarded
bracelet, asking if her father was the
that day on, Willa knew her origins and was
attempts to guide her, she was adamant and determined to leave the Perez
feared what dangers she might
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