My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

"Hendrix!" I was worried that he would reveal everything that had happened in the past, so I tugged on his sleeve and exclaimed, "Do you even know what you're talking about?!" After saying that, my mind went blank for a few seconds before I came to a realization and looked at Anne, asking, "You've... always known?"

Hendrix would never say anything he wasn't confident about. Everything he had said earlier was obviously based on him knowing that Anne had already found out her real identity. About everything that had happened between Monique and Josiah, everyone agreed to keep it a secret. In this case, who was the one who let everything out?

Before Anne could respond, Hendrix reminded, "If you still respect us as your parents, please be honest with us."

His attitude was much too aggressive. If this was before, I would probably take Anne's side and be against Hendrix. But in this situation, I could only frown and anxiously wait to see how everything went Fortunately, Anne was a very kind and nice girl.

Knowing that we didn't mean to harm her, she obediently revealed the secret that she had hidden in her heart.

"Two years ago, Mr. Clark accompanied me to a welcoming party in a university. Everyone who saw us thought that he was my father. I'd never carefully observed nor paid close attention to our appearances, but ever since that day, seeds of doubts sprouted in my heart."

Anne looked apologetic and stopped talking.

We could imagine what had happened next.

With her powerful mathematical ability and reasoning, she must've begun to recall the days when she was always with Josiah. Everyone knew her as the girl who had a mentor taking care of her the entire time but it eventually became a father who was caring for his daughter in his own ways.

in the cemetery seemed to devour everything. The three of us stood silently in front of Monique's grave and went

my best to appear calm so that I could have a peaceful conversation with

I realized that didn't sound right,

what you know."

as he might have deliberately distorted it. For us to clear up

a paternity test, that's all. He doesn't even know that I've figured out

what I had said and then continued, "All of you hid this from me, so I knew that there must be a reason for all of you to have done so. I didn't dare to

we already worried about you right now?" Hendrix responded coldly, each

understood Hendrix's

like how he had in the

her." Being concerned about Hendrix's emotions, I

respect by turning around and stepping aside, leaving us some

wide shoulders, I felt at ease. When I turned to look at Anne, I wasn't in a rush to speak

then sat down on the stairs beside