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...

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

and

didn't have

"Daddy, can't you

escaping a young girl's lips,

but if his presence promised an unending

in the end, he neither continued with his departure

into a state of emotional numbness, her

She merely sat motionless on the bed, as if he connection to the surrounding events had

her plea, urging her newly

plea fell on deaf ears, which led

he didn't dare spin around to console her... He

found the scene

you just

bitter smile, "You wouldn't understand... Take

suppressed the impulse to pivot and

he yearned to, he dared

that any proximity to Emily, without absolute

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