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."

stood up. "Enjoy reading your book,

more time with him, but he did not dare to tell her as he felt like he did not have

to spend time with Bryan and Christine,

starving, so she went to the kitchen to find something to eat, and also to ask the kitchen staff to cook something nice

...

come back from buying groceries, at

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 why didn't you get someone to do it

workout, you know. Besides, Zachary said he's gotten bored

this. He waved his hand to signal his subordinate to help Sophia carry the groceries, then said, "Did you learn how to cook for