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

was definitely related to

mistake lay with the

not want Jasper to recognize

her mother's disappearance have another

a slow smile crept across

Perez family,

discreet black Bentley inched along the road so slowly that it was

back seat,

Vivienne a ride?" Thomas,

"No need. Vivienne is in a mood; she needs

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

at the Perez residence, Jasper remained seated in the

leaving. She asked me to give this to you," Yuri

savings throughout the

in Sea City and had grown

background was

was the child Jasper had found during a crackdown on RST, barely four at the time, remembering only that

a bracelet engraved with the initials

Willa was the

and young Willa, innocent and alone, was taken in by

follow her everywhere, calling

to train in martial arts to

her part, had always regarded him as

asking if

knew her

Jasper's attempts to guide her, she was adamant and determined to leave the Perez family to

Willa had never been outside of the Perez family's protection, and he feared what dangers she might encounter on

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