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.

on her feet. Upon hearing the knock, she immediately jumped out of her seat and ran

Anne say, "Mommy, there's a bad

I went out hurriedly and saw Cecil. She walked in

she saw me, she strode towards me. Before I could even

you. It has nothing 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 one really knew how or could figure out

conduct the investigation; I did not expect

had already come to my house begging on her knees for

distance from her and said, "Miss Parker, you're talking to the wrong person.

and Norman, who had been eating also came

all surprised when

please let my father go. He is just an ordinary man. He has been carrying out his duties properly all these years. It was me. I shouldn't have caused so much trouble and I shouldn't have

Mr. Reid, you're in a high and powerful position and aren't afraid of anyone, but we're different. My father has been doing what was required of him all these years. He has never done anything to hurt anyone. He's just an unimportant official.

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had always been honest and clean. When he heard her

he looked at me, eyes urging me to explain who