The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Edmund opened the cubicle door and saw Joey’s hands dripping wet and his face all scrunched up.
“Sorry. I... I didn’t mean to do it! Mister, I accidentally made Joey trip, and both of his hands went into the toilet bowl,” said
‘Bryan’ guiltily.
Edmund was speechless. ‘I guess it’s true you can never take your eyes off of kids since all kinds of things can happen...’
Edmund did not know whether to laugh or cry when he saw Joey looking at his own hands with disgust.
“It’s okay, Joey. We’ll just need to give your hands a good wash. Let’s go over to the sink now,” he comforted him.
Joey was kind of a clean freak as well. He was visibly made uncomfortable by the toilet bowl water on his hands, so he quickly
nodded and followed Edmund over to the sink.
By the time Edmund turned around after he finished helping Joey wash his hands, ‘Bryan’ was already gone.
‘Sh*t, this isn’t good!’ he thought with a frown.
Meanwhile, in the other private booth, Sophia was carrying the real Bryan in her arms.
Bryan did not like being carried by her, so he kept trying to break free.
“Let me down!” he cried with a repulsed expression.
Sophia hugged him tighter. “Stop squirming, Benjamin. Both your Daddy and I are here on business, so be a good boy and settle
down!”
Even though Sophia’s tone was gentle, Bryan still could not help but feel intense dislike for her.
“No! I don’t want you to carry me. It’s hot!”
Sophia frowned unhappily. “You’re speaking nonsense again. How is it hot when the AC is on?”
Bryan was frowning as well. “It’s just hot! I don’t want to be carried. Let me go now!”
Sophia was starting to get impatient. “Benjamin, can you please stop...”
“Just let him sit by himself if he doesn’t want to be carried,” said Jeremy calmly.

Sophia’s face froze. Not wanting to argue with Jeremy, she had no choice but to let Bryan go. The only reason she wanted to
carry ‘Benjamin’ was to show Jeremy what a good mother she was and not really because she wanted to be close to the little
boy.
‘Benjamin’ dashed over to Jeremy and opened up his chubby little arms. “Daddy, carry me!”
Without hesitation, Jeremy picked him up and put him on his lap with one arm still wrapped around him.
Seeing this, Sophia’s face darkened. However, she quickly squeezed out a fake smile and said sarcastically, “Benjamin, didn’t
you say you were hot? How come Mommy can’t carry you but Daddy can?”
‘Benjamin’ glared at her. “Hmph! You’re not my Mommy!”
“Why you little brat...” Sophia immediately stopped smiling. “Zachary, aren’t you going to say anything? He wouldn’t call me
Mommy before, and now he says I’m not his Mommy? Is this what I get for giving birth to him and raising him? Oh, how it breaks
my heart to hear that!”
Jeremy glanced at the hurt Sophia without so much as a changed expression. “He would naturally call you Mommy if you
respected him as a person.”
Sophia looked even more hurt than before. “Are you saying I don’t respect him at all? It’s not like I can let him do whatever he
wants, right? No! As his mother, I need to discipline him. He might act all good in front of you, but you have no idea how naughty
he is when he’s with me. How can I not discipline him then?”
Jeremy frowned with annoyance. “That’s enough! We’re here on business today, so let’s talk about this when we’re back. Plus,
you’ll only scare Benjamin if you act all emotional now!”
As much as Sophia was upset by Jeremy’s cold attitude toward her, she knew the auction house was not a place to have a
public family argument. That could prevent the piece of land they were selling from fetching a high price.