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
related
with the Perez
did not want Jasper to
mother's disappearance
mind, a slow smile crept across her
family,
her, a discreet black Bentley inched along the road so slowly that it was overtaken by
Percival sat in the back seat, silently
Vivienne a ride?"
shook his head. "No need. Vivienne is in a mood; she needs some
nodded, though he did not understand how Percival could read Vivienne's mood from
Perez residence, Jasper remained
give this
to find all of Willa's savings throughout the years, along with a few articles
as his bodyguard in Sea City and had grown up by
Willa's background
a crackdown on RST, barely four
bracelet engraved with the initials
Willa was the daughter of
F-Poison had fled, and young Willa, innocent
disappeared, Willa would follow her everywhere, calling her 'sister' as if
approached Jasper with a request to
part, had always
Willa confronted him with her bracelet, asking if her father was the man
her origins and
adamant and determined to leave the
naturally, refused. Willa had never been 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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