The Day I Kissed An Older Man

After Corinne woke up, she came out to see Tommy standing straight at the door.

“Tommy, you can let your guard down a little. Miss Phoebe isn’t stupid enough to do anything to me for the time being,” she said while massaging her temples.

“Ma’am, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Miss Phoebe always looks like she wants to strangle you,” said Tommy with a frown.

Corinne smiled. “As if she could ever do that.”

Tommy sighed. “Ma’am, are you sure you want to stay here? Honestly speaking, Mister Joey looks fine to me. Why don’t you wait until Mister Jeremy is back? The two of you can pick Mister Joey up together afterward.”

Corinne could not help but feel her heart ache whenever she thought of poor Joey.

“You can’t possibly think he’s being treated well here. He might not be Jeremy’s biological son, but that doesn’t mean I can just abandon him here! The moment Jeremy adopted him is the moment he committed to taking care of him, for better or for worse. Plus, I’m pretty sure Jeremy won’t sit by and do nothing if he saw how scared Joey was of Phoebe.”

nothing. He has a very strong sense of responsibility.

dismissively, signaling to Tommy that was the end of the discussion. “You can go back to New Capital

and said, “Don’t worry, Ma’am. I don’t have anything waiting for me back in the city, so it’s no problem for me to stay

would make Tommy leave, so she rubbed her belly and said, “I’m starving. Get the kitchen

here. What if Miss Phoebe decides to poison your food as revenge?” said Tommy warily. “It’ll be disastrous if you eat the

knew Tommy’s worry was not unfounded, she still was not happy about his suggestion. “So you’d rather

hungry. The local government is trying to develop this area into a tourist destination, so there are some nice homestays

not worried I’ll eat something I

is a much safer option compared to dining here. But, the best option is to go back home. If not,

crap and bring me to the homestay now. As