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

lay with the Perez

did not want Jasper to recognize

could her mother’s disappearance

these thoughts circled her mind, a slow

family,

discreet black Bentley inched along the road so slowly that it

back seat, silently watching Vivienne’s

offer Vivienne a ride?” Thomas,

“No need. Vivienne is in a mood; she needs some

he did not understand how Percival could

residence, Jasper

asked me to give this to

looked inside to find all of Willa’s savings throughout the years, along with a few articles of

as his bodyguard in Sea City and had grown up

Willa’s background

on RST, barely four at

a bracelet engraved with the initials

Willa was

back then, F-Poison had fled, and young Willa,

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

dried, she approached Jasper with a request to train in martial arts to protect

never revealed Willa’s true

had always regarded him as

asking if her father was the man

on, Willa knew her origins and was

and determined

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

naivety and

selling everything the Perez family had given her over the years and working odd jobs to save money—all

it pained him, for she was his child in

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

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