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."

up. "Enjoy reading your book, then. I'll call you when dinner's

her to go. He wanted her to spend more time with him, but

Bryan and

not know was Corinne went down to the kitchen instead of Bryan and Christine's room. She was starving, so she went to the kitchen to find

...

happened to bump into Sophia, who had just come back from buying groceries, at the elevator when he got back to

when he noticed she, who had never done any chores around the house since young, was carrying a huge bag of groceries. "Why did you go out to buy so many groceries when the hotel has everything? And

much free time? All that walking is a good workout, you know. Besides, Zachary said he's gotten

was startled by this. He waved his hand to signal his subordinate to help Sophia carry the groceries, then said, "Did you learn how to cook for that good-for-nothing