Chapter 1149

‘Daddy’. The word swayed in Jeremy’s tear-clouded vision, reflecting in his dark eyes and shooting right through his heart. Lillian was giving him a genuine smile as she stared at him, her arms raised high up in the air. She was waiting, waiting for Jeremy to accept the picture she had drawn. She was waiting for Jeremy to see the word ‘Daddy’ that she had written herself. On the paper, there were the figures of all five of them that made up her family. The only daughter of the family was holding a distinguished man’s hand, looking at him as she called him ‘Daddy’. She finally called him her dad. She finally understood that he was her biological father. She could not speak, yet the drawing was a clear testament to her desire to call him her father. Jeremy’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he harshly forced down the desire to cry. Under Lillian’s expectant gaze, Jeremy turned and left. His escape wiped off the smile on Lillian’s little face as despair began to replace the hope in her