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.

related to the

with the Perez

want Jasper to recognize

mother’s disappearance have another

thoughts circled her mind, a

Perez family, how

road so slowly that it was overtaken by

the back seat,

shouldn’t we offer Vivienne a ride?” Thomas, the

shook his head. “No need. Vivienne is

he did not understand how

…

the Perez residence, Jasper remained seated in the

leaving. She asked me to give this to you,”

Willa’s savings throughout

bodyguard in Sea City and had grown up

Willa’s background was

found during a crackdown on RST, barely four at the time, remembering only that her

wore a bracelet engraved with the initials

Willa was the

and young Willa, innocent and alone, was taken

her everywhere, calling her ‘sister’ as if they

taken, Willa wept for ages. Once her tears dried, she approached Jasper with a request

Jasper never

had always regarded

Willa confronted him with her bracelet, asking if

that day on, Willa knew her origins

her, she was adamant and determined

outside of the Perez family’s protection, and he

naivety and stubbornness

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

for she was his child

his third son still harbored feelings

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