Chapter 565

“Soon after they lived together, Catherine was born. They had a pretty happy life together, but it didn’t last. When she was three, her parents were run over and killed by a large truck on their way home after working in the fields. Back then, nobody in the family knew about it, and there wasn’t a single person in the village who knew my uncle’s real identity.

“Hence, the village chief sent Catherine to an orphanage. When Catherine turned seven, my grandfather missed my uncle so much that he sent my father to look for him in the village. However, the village folks told my father that my uncle and his wife had died.

“They also informed my father that Catherine was sent to an orphanage. Hence, my father hurried over to the orphanage and brought Catherine home. He treated her like his daughter ever since,” Stanley Batton explained.

When Stanley talked about these things, he couldn’t help but recall the first time Catherine came to their house. He remembered the day she came to their fa