The Day I Kissed An Older Man

‘Benjamin must be running very quickly so he could catch up to me,’ thought Sophia. She was pleasantly surprised by
Benjamin’s gesture. ‘I can’t believe he’s willing to apologize to me! Well, I guess there’s a first for everything.’
She decided to play the compassionate mother in front of Jeremy.
“Benjamin, I wasn’t angry at you. But please don’t speak like that to Mommy again. It breaks Mommy’s heart whenever you say
things like that.”
Benjamin had no idea what she was talking about. In fact, his dislike for Sophia increased after experiencing Corinne’s warmth.
He turned his head away to avoid looking at her and snuggled himself closer to Jeremy.
Sophia’s expression froze once more at being snubbed like that. However, she told herself that the kid was just feeling rotten
from scraping his knees, so she decided not to pursue the matter.
...
The auction had not really started. Corinne and Lucas were having might face during the auction.
Edmund suddenly rushed in with Joey. The usually calm Edmund was ashen in the face when Corinne, but I lost Mister Bryan
due to my carelessness. We have no idea where he is right now!”
‘What?! Bryan ran off by himself again?’ Corinne quickly stood up and rushed out of the private booth to look for him.
At that moment, the auctioneer walked up to the stage to officially announce the start of the auction.
Lucas got up to follow her out, but Corinne had not completely lost her sense yet. She looked seriously at him and said, “Stay
here to look after Joey and Christine, Mister Lucas. Also, make sure you get that piece of land at Serenity Bay for me!
Remember, no price is too high! I can look for Bryan by myself.”
Lucas frowned. As much as he was worried about
Thus, he stopped walking and said, “Okay. Just be careful.”
“Will do,” replied Corinne before she strode out of the private booth.

Lucas gestured with his chin for Edmund to follow her, which the other man did. He then took out his phone to call the auction
house’s manager, instructing him to ask all the security guards to keep an eye out for Bryan.
...
Bryan was lying when he told Jeremy that he wanted to go out to apologize to Sophia. He actually wanted to go out because he
heard Joey’s voice outside.
When Jeremy was lecturing him, he heard Joey calling out his name from right outside their door.
He wanted to see whether it was really Joey. Thus, he lied to Jeremy, telling him that he wanted to go out to apologize to Sophia.
Since Sophia had just gone out and could not have walked far, Jeremy agreed to let him go alone.
However, Bryan did not see Joey after he came out of the private booth. He decided to walk one round to see if he could bump
into his big brother.
‘Did I hear wrongly?’ he wondered. For a moment, he thought himself lucky that his mother and Joey would be at the same
auction as he was.
Disappointed, he started making his way back to the private booth. However, when he passed by the restroom, he suddenly had
the urge to pee. Thus, he thought he would relieve himself before going back to Jeremy.