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
related
lay with the Perez
not want Jasper to recognize
mother's disappearance have another
thoughts circled her mind, a slow
family,
black Bentley inched along the road so slowly that
back seat, silently
shouldn't we offer Vivienne a
shook his head. "No need. Vivienne is in a mood; she
understand how Percival could read Vivienne's mood
Jasper
me to give
inside to find all of Willa's savings throughout the years, along with
bodyguard in Sea City and had
Willa's background was
RST, barely four at the
bracelet engraved with the
knew Willa was the daughter of
and young Willa, innocent and alone, was taken
Willa would follow her everywhere, calling her 'sister' as if
wept for ages. Once her tears dried, she approached Jasper with a request to train
her part, had always
one day, Willa confronted him with her bracelet, asking if her father was the man who
that day on, Willa knew her
adamant and determined to
outside of the Perez family's protection, and he feared what dangers she might encounter on her own. Though skilled, her naivety and stubbornness made her
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