My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Anne nodded excitedly, "Of course!"

After a pause, she seemed to remember something. She took Charles' hand and said, "Grandpa, let's go. The grapes Mom grew on the wall has ripened. Let's go and pick them."

The little fellow was a flurry of kiddy emotions. She hastily pulled Charles to the backyard.

Norman looked at me strangely and asked, "You're Charles' daughter?"

How should I tell him?

After thinking for a moment, I began to explain. "Four years ago, he adopted me four years ago, so I guess you can say that I'm his daughter."

He fell into silence for a while and did not continue asking more questions.

It was best to keep a distance from people. Everyone harbored secrets of their own that could not be revealed to others.

Halfway through dinner, a knock sounded at the door.

hearing the knock, she immediately jumped out of her seat and ran out. I got up and

I heard Anne say,

I went out hurriedly and saw Cecil. She walked in with a haggard face and her eyes were swollen and

strode towards me. Before I could even get a word out, she

to do with my father. You can torture me any way you want. My father is innocent." When I heard this, I started to understand what was going on. Charles always worked so swiftly and meticulously. No

conduct the investigation; I did not expect things to be

already come to my house begging on her knees

keep my distance from her and said, "Miss Parker, you're talking to the wrong person. This is not a

had been eating also

surprised when they

just an ordinary man. He

we're different.

others, regardless of whether they were the

honest and clean. When he heard her

me, eyes urging me to explain