The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 353

Jasper Perez clutched a forged portrait Vivienne had given him, exhaling a wistful breath.

After hours of standing there, long after the gallery had emptied, he couldn’t shake the feeling that the silhouette in the artwork was eerily familiar

Yet it didn’t quite match the memory of his daughter, Sasha, who had gone missing years ago.

Perhaps it was just his age playing tricks on him. After all, Sasha was just a ten–year–old kid when she vanished, and the woman in the portrait appeared to be in her mid–thirties. The gap in years made it hard to draw any solid connection

Or was it simply because of the mole?

Just then, a man in a crisp black suit hurried over, “Dad, you had me worried sick! You can’t just disappear like that. The brothers would have my head if anything happened to you!”

It was Jasper’s fourth son, Yuri Perez

Jasper gave him a side–eye and carried a commanding aura, “Since when do I have to report my whereabouts to you?”

“I didn’t mean it like that! Yuri said with a hint of frustration in his voice.

Ever since Sasha’s disappearance, Jasper had never looked at his sons the same way. He had treated them with cold shoulders and hard stares

over thirty years

worries us, you know?”

Yuri sighed. “Your health is not well, Dad If you go somewhere, at least let me know

Jasper scoffed, “Instead of worrying about me, why don’t you put that energy into finding

“We’ve already sent people out to look again,” Yuri replied.

Sasha?”

at the portrait again, then handed it to Yuri, “Take a look at this: The

daughter named Vivienne.”

passed away, leaving a

you get this?”

“The mole is so identical to Sasha’s. Dad, where

from? Jasper shot back, emotionless. “Vivienne has a fiancé, Percival, who is from the affluent Ellington family. Look into them and

right on it!” Yuri said, a

search for Sasha had been exhaustive and fruitless despite it took

just found something but the lead was soon cut off. It didn’t come to him that the picture, in which a

intuition that the light had pierced through the

him a look, “Just go and don’t dawdle. I don’t want

Jasper? He appeared to hold a grudge against

street

they were even worse than strays. Strays at least got scraps from his

so he said, “Let’s get you home, Dad Trust me, I’ll find Sasha

might very well tear him apart and feed him to the

roared, “Home? I’m not going anywhere until Sasha is found And I want you to

of familiarity with Vivienne, and he needed to find out why this young woman seemed

want stay in Riverwood? It’s dangerous here You’re coming home with

could finish, Jasper swung his cane, striking Yun on the head it was followed by a fierce reprimand “Just do as i say will you? What dangers are you talking about? Do you

Yuri was speechless

Go on, get

his father’s temper he reluctantly agreed. “Okay I’ll get you

inform his brothers They’d need to arrange for Jasper’s protection.

but Jasper pushed him away. “Since when do I

at him, devoid of expression, “Until Sasha is found,

sighed in

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and his whole family told him to recuperate. But

advice