The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

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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?”

peered down at the portrait again, then handed it to Yuri,

daughter named Vivienne.”

passed

you get this?”

paused, taken aback, “The mole is so identical to

emotionless. “Vivienne has a fiancé, Percival, who is from the affluent Ellington family. Look into them and see if you can dig up anything that might lead us to

Yuri said, a surge of

for Sasha had been exhaustive and fruitless despite it took the whole

the lead was soon cut off. It didn’t come to him that the picture,

he got an intuition that the light

go and don’t dawdle. I don’t want to see you until you have news, seeing you

families favored their sons, but Jasper? He appeared to hold a grudge against them as if

street

Strays at least got scraps from his table, while his sons

alone, so he said, “Let’s get you home,

very well tear him apart and feed

is found And I want you

Vivienne, and he needed to find

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

you? What dangers are you talking about? Do you see any gangs? If so, I’d like to see them try anything on me. Ei

Yuri was speechless

there? Go on, get

protest, but seeing his father’s temper he reluctantly agreed. “Okay I’ll get you settled first”

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

but Jasper pushed him away. “Since when do

devoid of expression, “Until Sasha is found, I cling to life. Even Death himself can’t take

in resignation

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whole family told him to recuperate. But the

advice

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