His Untamed Rose novel Chapter 59

Hearing the sound at the door, Tiana called out, “Is that you, Yadiel?”

“It’s me.”

Yadiel entered slowly, holding Lumina by the hand. He smiled gently. “I brought Lumina to see you. Didn’t you want to talk with her?”

Lumina’s fingers curled anxiously into her palm as she lifted her trembling gaze, painfully slow.

It was the first time in seven years that she’d faced them like this.

Yael Jardin looked far older than she remembered. Even with his hair freshly dyed, streaks of gray peeked through, and the hair on top of his head was heartbreakingly thin. His hands, worn from years of engineering work, were rough and mottled, like the bark of an old tree.

Right now, he was holding his youngest daughter, entertaining her with a rattle, a faint look of affection softening the hollows of his eyes.

When he looked up and saw Lumina, his gentle expression froze. He studied her intently, head to toe, then his gaze settled on her delicate features. He managed a slight smile. “You’ve changed so much. I almost didn’t recognize you.”

His voice, once booming and powerful, now sounded brittle and thin, like an old instrument that had lost its resonance.

The sound tugged at something deep inside Lumina, and she felt her heart clench with sorrow. No matter how much she tried to wrap herself in the armor of adulthood, in front of her parents, she was still a child—one who could cry at the slightest hurt.

“I heard from Yadiel that you’ve been doing well these past years. You have a respectable job, and you’re dating someone wealthy and influential.” Yael spoke calmly, his fingers gently stroking his youngest daughter’s hair. “You’ve been sending us money every month through Yadiel. We received every bit of it. Thank you.”

That single “thank you” snuffed out the last bit of warmth Lumina had kept alive in her heart. She drew a slow breath, steadying her trembling chest.

“No matter what, you’re still the parents who brought me into this world and raised me. You don’t owe me thanks for that. I don’t deserve it.”

“Whether you deserve it or not, I have to say it. You’ve been so good to us, and yet… these past years, we’ve treated you terribly.”

Yael’s voice was quiet, steady. “I’m here to apologize, on behalf of all of us, for the pain we’ve caused you.”

Lumina had braced herself for a storm of anger, expecting Yael to unleash all his old fury the moment she walked in.

She never imagined this—a man who had spent his life obsessed with pride, the same man who once threw a chair at her and demanded she get out of the Jardin family—would now bow his head and apologize.

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