In the end, Phoebe said sulkily, “Wait here. I’ll go check if he’s woken up from his nap.”

Corinne smiled, satisfied. “Okay. Thank you, Miss Phoebe.”

After a while, Phoebe came back with Joey.

Joey looked fearfully around the room. His eyes immediately lit up when he saw Corinne, but they quickly dimmed again.

Even though growing up in the orphanage turned Joey into a sensitive and insecure child, Corinne still remembered the look of awe in his eyes when she first met him.

That was why it was especially jarring for her to realize Joey had become so fearful through his stay with Anya and Phoebe that he did not even dare to look others in the eye anymore. His whole body language screamed how he wished he was dead.

not help but see

over. “Come

instinctively took a few steps back before turning

thought there was no point in stopping Corinne from talking to Joey since she already brought him

He thought Phoebe meant what she

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to look at Phoebe to see whether he was allowed to say

to keep his

she saw the many bruises and wounds on Joey’s

all those bruises and

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