The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Corinne's voice was soft, and her eyes were filled with sincere maternal love. Seeing this, Joey could not help but throw himself into her embrace. However, the next second, he sobered up to the fact he should not vie for Corinne's love and attention with the other kids since he was not her son by birth. Otherwise, he would get sent away to live somewhere else.

"Thank you for being so good to me all the time, Mommy. But I'm a big boy now, so I need to learn to be independent. I'm going to sleep alone from now on," said Joey seriously.

"You're only five years old. There'll be plenty of time for you to learn to be independent when you're older," said Corinne helplessly.

Joey pursed his lips tightly as if trying to keep himself from crying.

Seeing this, Corinne gave up on persuading him. She gently stroked his head and said, "Okay. You can sleep alone if you want to. I'm not going to bother you. But you can come find me whenever you miss me, okay?"

Joey nodded. "Okay."

your book, then. I'll call you

sadly as he watched her turn around. He did not actually want her to go. He wanted her to spend more time with him, but he did not dare to tell her

to spend time with Bryan and Christine, so I

to the kitchen instead of Bryan and Christine's room. She was starving, so she went to the kitchen to find something to eat, and also to ask the kitchen staff to cook something nice

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who had just come back from buying groceries, at the elevator when he got back

a huge bag of groceries. "Why did you go out to buy so many groceries when the hotel has

me going out to buy groceries when I have so much free time? All that walking is a good workout, you know. Besides, Zachary said he's gotten bored of the food in the hotel, so I want to cook for him.

his hand to signal his subordinate to help Sophia carry the groceries, then said, "Did you learn how to