Addicted To The Genius Lady With A Thousand Faces

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Marissa conversed elegantly with the guests. Aelfric watched, his expression complex, wondering if this composed and confident young woman could really be the simple village girl from Adagend he suspected her to be.

How could a village girl exhibit such a commanding presence and poised demeanor?

It wasn’t something that could be simply learned or feigned.

That very morning, Aelfric had dispatched people to Adagend to delve into Marissa’s background. Derek’s accounts held true. She hadn’t completed her high school education and was poorly regarded. She had left the village at fifteen to seek her fortune.

Unfortunately, his people were unable to trace her activities after she departed from the village.

Marissa had undergone some unique experiences that contributed to her

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increasingly fascinated by what her life

Wearing light makeup and a formal gown, she stood in the banquet hall,

by a stir within the hall. A voice exclaimed, “Oh

their attention to the entrance of the banquet hall. A tall, handsome man entered

refined yet commanding air, dispelling any misconceptions of him as a frail scholar. Instead, his presence cast a powerful

assistant stepped forward, introducing him to the greeters as Everett, the head of the Brock family. Until that

unmarried, attended the event as a representative of the