The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Chapter 141

The pain from getting scalded was more unbearable than other injuries. It was the type of pain. that was not abrupt but a slow burn instead. The burning sensation would remain that it was possible to ignore.

Corinne nodded. “I had to do everything myself when I lived in the countryside. That meant chopping the wood, making the fire, and boiling water. At first, I didn’t know how to do it and ended up burning myself. It was so painful that I couldn’t sleep for the whole night!”

Jeremy’s eyebrows furrowed at this. Unknowingly, his eyes looked worried. “When did you start doing all that?”

Corinne answered faintly, “I can’t remember.”

Very often, she refused to talk about her childhood. If she accidentally brought it up, she would stop the topic immediately.

Jeremy placed his hand on top of her head and patted her like a little pet. “Did you have a bad childhood?”

“It’s not that bad.”

feeling pity for her. She pushed away his hand with disgust and said seriously, “You probably don’t know anything about my family, but I think I have to tell you anyway: my family is very greedy. If they know about you and me, I’m not the only one in trouble. It’ll bring a lot of unnecessary trouble to you too, and I believe you won’t want that to happen. Thus, I hope you can work with me and try

smell from the burn-aid cream entered his nostril and affected his mood. He narrowed his eyes darkly. “Is someone in your family

for each other. Our

eyes

up so often? Treating each other as strangers when the time is up… Does she truly hope that she

and said in a deep voice, “Miss Corinne, you

and passed it to him. “Here, take this

gloomy expression remained as he made no moves to take the cream. As a result, Corinne had to

none of them

reached the Holdens estate. They got down and went back to

to pretend to be a loving couple and sleep in the

room.

the study while Corinne went back to the

Jeremy smoked for the entire night in the