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

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

going back to spend time with Bryan and Christine, so I shouldn't stop her...' he

so she went to the kitchen to find something to eat,

...

just come back from buying groceries, at

bag of groceries. "Why did you go out to

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

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