The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Chapter 672

Anya only hesitated for a moment before quickly releasing her grip on the child’s hand. She remained calm and discreetly covered the red marks on Joey’s body that she caused, then gently pulled him closer to her embrace, soothingly saying, “Don’t cry, don’t cry, Mommy is here! Joey, don’t cry, everything is fine!”

Faced with the sudden change in his mother’s emotions, Joey’s crying subsided slightly, but he still felt. very confused about what he did wrong.

Lucas approached, his clear and thoughtful eyes filled with doubt. “Anya, what happened? Why is the child crying like this?”

Anya looked up, her expression innocent and harmless. “Brother, you’re back! It’s, it’s nothing. Joey accidentally fell and hurt himself just now. I was comforting him.”

The perplexity between Lucas’s eyebrows dissipated, and he gently touched Joey’s head. “A real man should be strong. You can’t cry over a little bump or scratch!”

Joey’s face was tear-stained as he looked up at his uncle, With his limited language ability, he could not express his own experience, but he felt wronged and pouted his lips.

Suddenly, his mother’s hand pinched him again, not too lightly or heavily. Joey’s fearful gaze once again turned to Anya.

gaze, he dared not cry anymore or show any reaction. He was

his mother came to the orphanage to pick him up. At that time, he thought his mother was very

was roughly confined with other children in the orphanage, never experiencing such gentle

he was adopted, his mother

he did not even know what he did wrong to make

make his mother unhappy.

pursing his lips, and tried to please her.

angry. Silly child, how could Mommy be angry with

hearing his mother say she wasn’t

take care of you for a while.

nodded obediently. He then clumsily walked outside to find

brother.” Lucas, I’m sorry. You asked me to

grew serious. “Edmund already told me about today’s Incident. It’s not your fault. It’s

being too cunning.”