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

definitely related to the

with the

did not want Jasper to recognize

mother's

mind, a slow smile

Perez family,

black Bentley inched along the road so slowly

in the back seat, silently watching

offer Vivienne a ride?"

Vivienne is in a mood;

did not understand how Percival could read Vivienne's mood from

at the Perez residence, Jasper remained

to give this to you,"

savings throughout the years, along with a few articles of

bodyguard in Sea City and had grown

background

RST, barely four at the time, remembering only that her

engraved with the

was

fled, and young Willa,

everywhere, calling her 'sister' as

taken, Willa wept for 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 revealed Willa's

Willa, for her part, had always

day, Willa confronted him with her bracelet, asking if her father was the man who had

on, Willa knew her origins and was

to guide her, she was adamant and determined to leave the Perez family

family's protection, and he feared what dangers she might encounter on her

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