One Night Surprise

Chapter 479 A Little Fairy Once Told Me

The next morning, the workers and children of World Vision Orphanage in the northern suburbs all lined up in 2 rows near the orphanage’s entrance. Amidst the warm welcome from both sides, Alicia slowly walked toward the entrance of the orphanage after getting out of the car.

As Angie and Josephine followed closely after her, the endless applause from the crowd started to make Angie’s temples throb. She had been having a bad feeling about today since last night.

Even though their welcome seemed hearty, she knew that none of them were applauding for their arrival. After Alicia was guided by the orphanage director to his office, Angie held Josephine’s hand as they walked around the compound. It wasn’t long after when the orphanage’s workers started talking in hushed voices amongst themselves that Angie finally understood the star of today’s activities.

A mysterious wealthy person in Melrose City was willing to donate a huge amount of operational funds to World Vision Orphanage. If the donation proceeded as planned, that would mean that the orphanage had a chance to change its facilities into new ones, which would, in turn, bring about positive changes to the children’s living conditions. The other thing that they were most happy about was that the workers’ quarterly bonuses might double.

A plump woman waving a little red flag instructed the crowd who was cozy and sleepy from being under the warm sun, “They are here! Everyone, get ready!”

Angie stood by the entrance, and she craned her neck to peek at the silver sedan parked outside the orphanage’s gate. She caught sight of a middle-aged man with a balding head sitting in the sedan. With his sunglasses on, and a briefcase in his hand, he got out of the sedan and walked past the cheering crowd toward the director’s office.

“Is that the mysterious rich person?”

“Dummy, why would a mysterious person show themself so easily? He is a lawyer who has work to do here.”

“Does this mean that our double bonus is confirmed? Haha—”

Josephine was tired from hearing the chatter going on, so she clasped her hand around Angie’s mouth and started dragging her along into the orphanage.

Alicia would usually bring Josephine along to attend these charity events. Under the older woman’s constant influence, it became a habit for the young girl to lend a hand whenever she could. However, she did seem tired today. She even looked like she was anxious.

She pushed open a wonky wood-colored door that made a loud creaking noise, and she was immediately greeted by the sight of a skinny figure shaking behind the door. The person’s big eyes immediately shot up to look at the figures of a young girl and a young adult still standing outside the door.

Seeing him, Josephine couldn’t help but wonder why there was a boy hiding in the corner when everyone at the orphanage was supposed to be welcoming their guests at the entrance.

a flat nose and there was a piece of gauze on his forehead. He was a strange sight

and politely greeted him. “Hello,” she

of clay that wasn’t shaped well in one hand, and a knife in the other. On closer look, the tip of the knife was stained with fresh blood that seemed to have come from an injury in the back of his left

the boy, but when she was still some distance away from him, the boy suddenly let out a grunt that sounded

he wants to be disturbed. Let’s go to

told her that children living in orphanages had gone through unhappy times and that she should be caring and

a box of chocolate from her

an angrier grunt when he saw the chocolate. As his gaze showed an aggression impossible for a person his age, he ran over to

flying before it hit the leg of a table,

stared at the boy’s fierce face. Immediately after that,

making him fall to the floor with a thud. He continued to thrash around and howl even when he had fallen down. It was

Josephine’s meek voice rang out from

helplessly watched the boy getting back on his feet just to stomp on those

“Jackie, calm down!”

gave him the

their game of Hawk and Chicken, Angie took the chance to bring Josephine out of the room, only for her to be pulled by the younger

gash on Angie’s arm at her eye level, and

dress the wound, madam,” Josephine said to the doctor in the infirmary before turning to Angie. “It might get a little painful so

straight out of the infirmary. Angie couldn’t help but start

open and

she bumped straight into what felt like a solid wall. It was so painful that tears started coming out of her eyes and she thought her nose was broken because of

“A-Angie…”

that choked-up voice utter her name, Angie immediately stepped away from the warm chest she had bumped into. After she raised her head to look at the person, her pupils dilated, and the

“A—Alex,” she stuttered.