His Unveiled Passion

That night, Tessa returned to the Yates residence after being buried in work the whole day. Marianne came out to greet her after she parked her car.

She had a troubled look on her face as she pulled Tessa to the side and whispered, "Tessa, your father found out about you getting back together with Stephen. He's stewing in anger in the living room at the moment.

"If you don't want to deal with him now, you should go home for today. Come back a few days later after his anger has subsided."

Tessa's heart dropped to her gut. She didn't expect Samuel to find out so quickly. Her eyes lowered as she mulled over her thoughts for a moment. She said, "It's alright, Ms. Connors. I'll go in and face him. This is something that I'll have to deal with sooner or later. I can't keep running forever."

Marianne sighed. "Alright, then. Have a good talk with your father. He loves you a lot. If you explain the situation properly to him, I'm sure he'll come around and support your decision."

"I understand. Thank you, Ms. Connors."

Tessa sucked in a deep breath before she headed into the villa. She made her way up to the first floor, to the hall where she knew she would find Samuel. As Marianne said, Samuel was sitting on the couch with a hardened expression.

"Dad," Tessa called as she entered.

Samuel shot a cold look at her. His tone was unkind when he said, "So, you still acknowledge me as your father, do you?"

course," Tessa replied, keeping her expression

over to the armchair and sank into

Stephen? Why didn't

before she answered, "Well, I was planning to tell you

told me if

can't tell you anything if you never ask in

word games with me." Samuel glared at Tessa. He sounded indignant when he exclaimed, "As your father, why did I have

going to take the bait. "But isn't that always the case? There are so many people and sets of eyes in the outside world. It's not like I can tell all of them to stop looking at

exhaled sharply, looking extremely displeased. "You're trying to anger me on

would I intentionally anger you? I just

out, "Break

immediately sobered up. "No," she

to his feet. His voice had risen several pitches when he said, "Haven't the Jacobsons wronged you and our family enough? You nearly died,

and Jacqueline were the ones who wronged me in the past. They're no longer a threat now that the law has dealt with them accordingly," Tessa explained. Why can't get back together with Stephen? You shouldn't blame him for Jason's

blame Stephen, I can at least blame the Jacobson family, can't I? I

Susan's knife attack during the engagement party, I would