The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Corinne recognized that voice. It was the same woman who picked up Jeremy’s phone when Francine called him last time.

She felt her heart inexplicably aching.

She did not ask him who the woman was as she trusted he would explain everything to her without needing to prompt him. To her surprise, he did no such thing.

Instead, he quickly said, “Hey, I gotta go now. Be a good girl and go to bed early, okay?”

Corinne did not even have a chance to ask what was happening when Jeremy hung up on her. She listened as the disconnected tone floated into her ear.

‘Who is that woman? Why didn’t he explain himself?’ she asked herself.

She threw her phone aside and climbed into her bed. Feeling sad and insecure, she hugged her pillow tightly and curled herself into a ball.

almost every night in this way when she was a child. After she grew up and gained the ability to protect herself, she no longer slept in this

to have rushed back to erode her self-esteem again. Slowly, she started to doze off without

brightly in the sky. The warm sunlight shone through the

not the room’s furnishing but a

She touched the chest in front of her, and to

though she had just woken up, she remembered she had spent the night in the Riveras’ summer villa. Moreover, Jeremy was not

this man sleeping beside me?’ Various possibilities flashed through

with shock. She quickly pushed the man away and looked under the blanket to see whether she was still clothed.Books Chapters Are Daily Updated

her disappointment, she

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angrily at the