The Day I Kissed An Older Man

“You’re Jeremy’s niece, alright—defending him so fervently,” said Corinne mockingly. “To me, hiding something from me is as good as lying. Not to mention, I did ask him whether he was hiding anything from me, and he said he wasn’t.”

Annie sighed again. “I’m a woman too, but I understand how you feel. No one likes to be lied to by the people they love and trust. But Corinne, don’t you get the sense that Uncle Jeremy is quite scared of you? He must not dare to tell you after imagining how angry you would be.”

Corinne found that laughable. “Heh! As if I’d ever believe he’s scared of me. You haven’t seen the way he shouts at me when he’s angry at me.”

Annie spread her hands helplessly. “Take today, for example. Uncle Jeremy doesn’t really care what the Riveras think of him. But even so, he didn’t dare to set foot inside because he was worried you’d get angry at him again.”

Corinne was speechless.

likes her. No. It’s because Sophia’s father is Adam, as in the

just a big bully with a global reach. As to why this concerns Uncle Jeremy… Well, he’s in a somewhat complicated

playboy who had many illegitimate children with different women outside of his marriage. As time passed, his illegitimate children all

Uncle Jeremy’s weakness so they could threaten him with it. All of them wanted him dead

Sophia is different. She has her dad’s

was willing to help him with no strings attached since they were friends. Uncle Jeremy had no

to revoke his marriage with Sophia because he was worried your life would be put in danger or that his half-brothers would use you to blackmail him, just like what happened today, without Sophia as a cover. But I guess some things just can’t be avoided.

‘Does that mean the extra bodyguards Jeremy hired to keep watch over me before I escaped the mansion was to prevent me from getting kidnapped by his half-brothers?’ she wondered.