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 Perez

lay with the Perez

not want Jasper to recognize

her mother’s

a slow smile crept

family,

a discreet black Bentley inched along the road so slowly

in the back seat, silently watching Vivienne’s retreating

Vivienne a ride?”

is in a mood;

did not understand how Percival could read Vivienne’s mood from her

…

at the Perez residence, Jasper remained seated

give this to

throughout

and had grown up by his side, raised like

Willa’s background

during a crackdown on RST, barely four at

engraved with the initials

was the daughter

Willa, innocent and alone,

would follow her everywhere,

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

years, Jasper never

her part, had always regarded him

her bracelet, asking if her

knew her origins and

adamant and determined to leave the

refused. Willa had never been outside of the Perez family’s protection, and he

and stubbornness

had given her over the years

all, and it pained him, for she was

still harbored feelings for her, remaining unwed and loyal

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