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Chapter 584
Corinne smiled at him and answered politely, “Hello, Mister Edgar, I am Corinne Carew. I’m twenty this year.”
Edgar squinted, looking carefully at her as if he was lost in thoughts. “Twenty. Your parxo.com fast updateents
are?”
Corinne said, “I come from an ordinary family. You probably don’t know my parents, but they are both alive and
well. They are living in New Capital City.”
If Edgar were to ask for more details, she would say her parents are Marvin and his wife. He never treated the
Carews as her family, but she did not wish to reveal the true situation with her family there and attract unnecessary
suspicion.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtEdgar nodded. “My wife didn’t frighten you, did she? It’s because you resembled our long- lost daughter and
granddaughter a little that she mistook you for someone else.”
Corinne smiled calmly. “It’s fine. I wasn’t frightened. I understand her feelings very well. It’s also my honor to bear a
little resemblance to your daughter and granddaughter.”
Edgar looked at the girl before his eyes with an attitude that was neither arrogant nor humble, then he looked at
what she wore.
She was not dressed up like the other young ladies out there who insisted on wearing dresses that showed their
legs and arms in the middle of winter.
She was wearing a white shirt and straight-fit pants. It was very simple, and she did not look like she deliberately
dressed up to attend the party. However, she was very spirited. She looked like she was full of vigor, which was
rarely seen in young people at that age.
Edgar could not help but like and admire this girl named Corrine, whom he just met, a little. more. He nodded
thoughtfully and asked, “Corinne, you said your parents are in New Capital City. That means your grandparents
must also be in the same city, am I right?”
Corrinne shook her head. “I don’t have grandparents. I’ve never met them before.”
Edgar had a sense of pity in his eyes as he looked at Corinne. “If that’s the case, are you willing
“You’re here too, Corinne! I never expected that you’ll also be attending my grandfather’s birthday party!” Anya
suddenly walked over to greet Corinne with a smile, cutting Edgar off.
She did it intentionally because knew what Edgar wanted to say, and she would not let that happen! Edgar was
going to ask if Corinne was willing to be like a granddaughter to him.
Gertrude’s Alzheimer’s got more and more severe in the past few years, so she mentioned the names of their long-
lost daughter, Emily, and granddaughter, Luna. every day, and she almost forgot about everybody and everything
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Therefore, Edgar had the intention to take a girl who looked like their long-lost daughter or granddaughter into his
family to keep his wife accompanied, relieving his wife’s condition.
However, Edgar had high standards. He was unsatisfied with all the girls who were rushing in to be his
granddaughter, and he was unhappy with the girls his family and friend introduced as well. Therefore, this matter
was dragged out without being resolved.
Anya kept feeling that as long as she put in the effort to imitate Edgar and Gertrude’s daughter’s and
granddaughter’s habits and character and deliberately make herself look like how Emily looked in old photos with
makeup, she certainly could make her grandparents happy!
However, that did not happen. Edgar and Gertrude did not even take another look at her at all. Edgar never
considered letting her, his “granddaughter,” help with his wife’s condition.
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