"She does look a bit like her, but it's not her." Henry sighed softly. "This girl seems quite nice."

He turned to Ronald behind him and asked, "When did Charlie get married? Why didn't we know anything about it?"

"Well... Mr. Hoffman got married about five months ago. It's not just you, many people don't know about it," Ronald explained.

Since Charles had invited Henry and Nancy over today, and Noelle had openly acknowledged the marriage, Ronald assumed Charles was not planning on hiding it from Henry and Nancy, so he decided to be upfront.

Henry and Nancy were both shocked. They had not expected that Charles not only got married but had done so quite early and had kept it hidden for so long. Five months ago meant that Charles got married around the time when Robert had his incident. This kid really kept things under wraps, fooling everyone. If he had not invited them over today, they would probably still be in the dark.

"This girl..."

"Rest assured, she's very nice. You can see she really loves Mr. Hoffman, and he loves her just as much," Ronald added, sharing the conclusion he had reached after observing them for some time their relationship truly was strong.

But is the reason Charlie called us over just

answering directly. "Mr. Henry, you'll know soon

Nancy as they

had arrived the moment their car entered Phoenix Tree Residence, so he put down his book and

massaging Charles' temples. "How are you feeling? Any better?"

head downstairs. Uncle Henry and Aunt Nancy

"Did you meet them?"

to see me, especially when they heard we

Charles said,

hand. "We'd have

open-minded in the Hoffmans. grew up with them, and they're very

"I think I made a good impression just

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