The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Chapter 1473
Corinne stared at Edmund sympathetically.
“That’s enough, Mister Lucas,” she said, jumping in to defend the poor man. She then turned to Edmund and said, “Why don’t
you go out first, Edmund?”
Edmund bowed to her gratefully. “Yes, Miss Corinne.”
Lucas became even more upset and jealous when he heard her call Edmund without using the word ‘Mister’.
‘How can she be so casual with Edmund when I don’t get to have that privilege?’ he thought seethingly. ‘Hmph! Oh well.* 2
Not wanting Corinne to think he was ill-tempered, Lucas decided to let the whole thing slide. He waved ‘Bryan’ over, saying,
“Come here, Bryan.”
‘Bryan’ became a little sad at being scolded by Corinne. At first, he was hesitant to go over to Lucas, but he somehow felt like he
was familiar, so he walked over to him docilely.
Lucas picked him up lovingly. “What’s the matter? Did you get scolded by your Mommy?”
‘Bryan’ nodded with a pout.
Lucas patted him gently on the head. “That’s because she’s worried about you. You shouldn’t run off by yourself next time,
understood? She’s going to be worried about you again if you do.”
Corinne looked angrily at ‘Bryan’. “Next time? I’m not going to look for him next time. He can go wherever he wants!”
It pained ‘Bryan’ to hear Corinne say that to him. He did not run off for the sake of running off. It was because he saw his father
and wanted to see if he had been worried about him for not going home last night.
However, he became even more upset at the thought of not being able to see Corinne again. One day, he would have to go back
to live with his own mother and father.
Finally, he could not hold back his tears anymore, and he started to bawl his eyes out.

Lucas felt really sorry for his nephew. He wiped the little boy’s tears and said, “Don’t cry. Your mother only said what she said out
of anger. I’m sure she’s going to look for you if you go missing again. What you did today really made her mad, so don’t do it
again, okay?”
‘Bryan’ was not crying because he feared Corinne would not want him anymore but knew he was not her son. He would have to
leave her eventually.
Not only that, but he would never get to see her again, too. After Sophia finished her business there, he and Jeremy would go
back to Molomia with her. They would never come back to New Capital City again.
In other words, he would not see or be hugged by Corinne again as long as he lived. Instead, he would have to live with Sophia,
whom neither he nor Jeremy liked.
Even though Sophia told Benjamin she was his Mommy, he never felt that way about her. She felt more like a stranger to him,
but the same could not be said about Corinne. For some reason, he found Corinne as familiar as his father and would always
want her to hug him. 1
‘Could it be that the kind lady is actually my real Mommy? But... Daddy has never met her before, so how could she give birth to
me?’ he thought. He told himself it was impossible for Corinne to be his Mommy and that he was being delusional.
Corinne’s heart softened when she saw the boy crying nonstop. “Stop crying. A big boy like you shouldn’t cry so much. Come
here. You’re dirtying your uncle’s clothes with your tears and snot.”
‘Bryan’ looked at the wet spot created by him on Lucas’ suit sheepishly. “It’s okay. I don’t mind,” said Lucas with a doting smile.