Sebastian, you rascal! If you could just handle it by yourself, I wouldn't have to deal with the woman I hate most in my life... Jeffrey thought to himself.

Arguing with Rebecca was enough to make him sick to his stomach!

But in the end, he won the battle in front of Ashley. Jeffrey felt quite smug for that.

Any man, no matter how mature he appeared, would act like a big boy in front of the woman he loved. Jeffrey was no different.

Inside the room, Ashley was feeling all kinds of emotions.

Upon hearing that Jeffrey was leaving, Emily, who was in Ashley's arms, immediately struggled to get down and rushed out of the room, shouting, "Daddy! Don't go!" Jeffrey paused at the door.

His daughter...was calling him Daddy.

This wasn't the first time, but he didn't know he had a daughter in this world then.

This time, he hesitated... He didn't know whether or not to acknowledge her.

He couldn't protect her mother eight years ago... Could he protect them now? Jeffrey felt lost.

The Perez family, they're a complicated bunch...

bold. There wasn't a bolder woman in the whole

and people

have

can't you stay? Mom's tormented, so can't you

escaping a young girl's

presence promised an unending calamity for them, he would prefer to

in the end, he neither continued with his departure nor mustered the courage to

the room, Ashley had slipped into a state of

as if he connection to the

continued her plea, urging

dad, but not Emily!" Emily's plea fell on

around to console her... He felt like a coward

the

can't you just

understand... Take

the impulse to pivot and embrace

he yearned to, he

was petrified...terrified that any proximity to Emily, without

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