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 paternity

definitely related

mistake lay with the Perez

want

could her mother's disappearance have

her mind, a slow smile crept across

family, how

the road so slowly that it was overtaken by electric

Percival sat in the back seat, silently

shouldn't we offer Vivienne a ride?" Thomas,

Vivienne is in

not understand how Percival could

Perez residence, Jasper remained seated

me to give this to you," Yuri handed over a

of Willa's savings throughout the years, along

served as his bodyguard in Sea City and had grown up by his side, raised like

background

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

wore a bracelet engraved

knew Willa was the daughter of

had fled, and young Willa,

everywhere, calling her

for ages. Once her tears dried, she approached Jasper with a request to

Willa, for her part, had always

with her bracelet, asking if her father was the man who

day on, Willa knew her origins and was submerged

and determined to leave

the Perez family's protection, and he feared what dangers

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