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

mistake lay with

did not want Jasper

could her mother’s disappearance have another

her mind, a slow smile crept across her

Perez family, how

black Bentley inched along the road so slowly that it

the back seat, silently watching

a ride?”

is in a mood; she needs some

he did not understand how

Perez residence, Jasper

leaving. She asked me to give this

Willa’s savings throughout

and had grown up by his

Willa’s background was

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

engraved with

knew Willa was

had fled, and young Willa, innocent and alone,

would follow her everywhere, calling her ‘sister’ as if

she approached Jasper with a request to train in martial arts to protect him in Sasha’s

years, Jasper never revealed Willa’s

her part, had always regarded him as

her bracelet, asking if her father was the man

knew her

was adamant and determined to leave the Perez family to

family’s protection, and

skilled, her naivety and stubbornness

the years and working

it all, and it pained him, for she was

still harbored feelings for her, remaining unwed

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