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Chapter 785
Cedric nodded. “Very well, then. Take your time in the garden, Corinne, and come back inside when you’re tired.”
“Yes, Grandpa Cedric.”
The servant helped Cedric into an electric buggy, and the two of them drove back to the mansion.
After seeing Cedric off, Corinne looked back to the field of dusty blue flowers.
“They’re so beautiful. It’s a pity I didn’t get a chance to ask Grandpa Cedric for the flower’s
name…’
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtShe walked closer to the flowers and bent down to take a sniff. ‘Strange… These flowers smell nice and sour at the
same time. What a shame that a beautiful flower like this doesn’t have a beautiful scent to go with it.”
Just when she was disappointed about the strange-smelling flower, a tall middle-aged man suddenly popped out
from the field of flowers.
Corinne jumped up in fright as the middle-aged man straightened himself, both of his hands caked in dirt. Corinne
instinctively stepped back and looked quizzically at him.
The middle-aged man smiled at her. “Sorry for scaring you. I was putting some fertilizer on the flowers.”
He then walked out from the field of flowers and went to wash his hands at a tap nearby. “So I take it you’re a guest
of the house?”
Corinne nodded. “Yes. Sorry to be bothering you, Mister Maxwell.”
Maxwell had just finished washing his hands. He turned around in surprise and asked, “You know who I am?”
He was dressed in gardening clothes and never introduced himself, so how could Corinne know who he was?
“I’ve met you before at Grandpa Edgar’s birthday party. It hasn’t been that long ago, so I still remember you.
‘Oh, that solves the mystery, then.’ Maxwell looked at her and said, “I remember you too.”
“Oh?” It was Corinne’s turn to be surprised.
They did not really talk during Edgar’s birthday party. In fact, they just passed each other by, and unlike Corinne,
Maxwell did not seem to be observing her closely. How could he remember her?
Maxwell smiled. “I have a deep impression of you because you look like my daughter.”
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm‘Oh, sh*t! Have I been found out? Wait, calm down, Corinne. He’s probably talking about Anya, ‘thought Corinne.
It was not strange that she and Anya would look alike since they came from the same father.
Maxwell sat on a bench and sipped the water from his thermos before looking at Corinne. “So
you’re the one who saved my father’s life? I heard all about you, you know.”
“It wasn’t as dramatic as that made out to be. I was just passing by and thought I’d help. I came here today
because I couldn’t bear to turn down Grandpa Cedric’s invitation.”
Maxwell nodded. “I like you. You’re humble.”
Corinne did not want to continue making small talk with her deadbeat father, so she turned
and asked, “Mister Maxwell, what’s the name of these flowers?”
Maxwell stared at the field of flowers and said softly, “Moonlight.”
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