The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 467

Jasper was still wading through a swamp of guilt as he continued, “I’ve been treating you like a stand-in for my daughter, and I crossed a line. I hope you’re not upset. I’m just an old man with selfish desires; I don’t want to lose contact with you.”

Vivienne snapped back to reality and offered a gentle smile. “It’s okay. If you like, I’d be happy to call you ‘Grandpa.'”

Hearing Vivienne’s words, Jasper was overwhelmed with emotion, tears tracing the lines of his weathered face.

She offered to call him ‘Grandpa.’ How could he not be moved?

Jasper patted Vivienne’s hand, struggling for words before finally managing, “Yes, yes, that would be wonderful.”

With each affirmation, Vivienne felt her own eyes mist over.

Every time she met Jasper, she experienced a peculiar sensation.

It was an instinctual pull to be close to him.

Not a duty, not an obligation, but an innate desire for closeness.

When she received the paternity test results, her emotions were anything but calm.

She was elated.

Happy for herself and for her mother.

If her mother was indeed Sasha, then whatever her fake family had done, it did not matter to her anymore.

In this world, there were true family members who cherished her, protected her, and loved her.

Vivienne and Jasper talked for hours, the air filled with laughter and warm conversation.

After dinner, Vivienne left the Perez Mansion.

She did not call Percival to pick her up; instead, she strolled down the road, her cool face set in solemn contemplation.

There was no mistake in her paternity report.

was definitely related to

with the Perez

want Jasper to recognize

could her mother’s

thoughts circled her mind, a slow smile

family, how

her, a discreet black Bentley inched along the road so slowly

sat in the back seat, silently watching Vivienne’s

we offer Vivienne a ride?” Thomas, the driver,

is in a mood; she

though he did not understand how Percival could read

…

Perez residence, Jasper remained seated in the

leaving. She asked me to give this to

Willa’s savings throughout the years, along with a few articles

as his bodyguard in Sea City and had grown up by his side, raised like his

background

child Jasper had found during a crackdown on RST, barely four at the time, remembering only that her name was

wore a bracelet engraved with

knew Willa was

had fled, and young Willa, innocent and alone,

disappeared, Willa would follow her everywhere, calling her ‘sister’

for ages. Once her tears dried, she approached Jasper with a request to train in

the years, Jasper never

part, had always regarded him as

Willa confronted him with her bracelet, asking if her father was

her

and determined to leave the

been outside of the Perez family’s protection, and he feared what dangers she

skilled, her naivety and

given her over the years and working odd jobs to save money—all

it pained him, for she was his child in all but

to make matters more complicated, his third son still harbored feelings for her, remaining unwed and

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