The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Anya felt like her world had crumbled when Lucas pushed her away, and she started sobbing out loud. Since she could not
argue her way out of this, she had no choice but to resort to using tears, hoping this would bring Lucas to her side.
“Lucas... hic... Why don’t you love me anymore? You...promised you’ll always protect me no...
matter what.”
Lucas refused to speak or look at her. He did not want to be reminded of just how blind he was to all of Anya’s scheming ways
over the years.
“Cool down, Mister Lucas,” said Corinne as she passed him a bottle of mineral water.
Lucas was slightly shocked and relieved to see Corinne caring about him. However, the happiness did not last long because it
was replaced by heavy guilt a second later. He finally saw Anya’s true colors, and he could not help but think of all the times he
blamed Corinne for hurting Anya.
In all the times the two girls had a misunderstanding, he would always take Anya’s side no matter what. Oh, how he would
shame and scold Corinne for hurting Anya then. Thinking back on it, there was a high possibility he had fallen for Anya’s evil plot.
‘Oh, Lucas... You foolish, foolish man!’ he chided himself angrily.
He thought of himself as not deserving to accept the bottle of mineral water, but at the same time, he did not want Corinne to
think he was ungrateful for her caring gesture. In the end, he accepted the bottle of mineral water shamelessly before asking
apologetically, “Corinne, aren’t you angry at all? I mean, you could’ve lost your baby.”
Corinne smiled. “Why should I be angry? I didn’t drink the pomegranate juice, so their plan failed.”
Lucas smiled ruefully. He wanted to hug her and protect her so badly, but he knew he had lost the right to do that a long time
ago.
“Mister Lucas, forgive me for being blunt, but I think you’ve misunderstood Miss Anya,” said Corinne lightly.
“What do you mean, Corinne?” Lucas asked in shock.
Anya was shocked, too, so much so that she stopped crying. She turned to look at Corinne in confusion. ‘What is she trying to
pull with Lucas?’ she wondered with alarm.

Corinne took an unhurried sip from her bottle of mineral water before putting the cap on and passing it to Jeremy like it was the
most natural thing to do in the world. After that, she walked up to Anya and looked at her with eyes filled with gentleness.
“Look at the poor thing; her eyes are all red. I’m pretty sure she had nothing to do with what Miss Phoebe did. She must’ve only
found out the whole thing after the fact and thought Miss Phoebe only did what she did for her sake. That’s why she couldn’t
bear to see us all coming down on her mother so hard, so she did what she had to do to save her. Am I right, Miss Anya?
Anya looked at Corinne with both confusion and wariness. However, she quickly nodded after that. Why not?
“Yes, it’s exactly as you said. I didn’t know about the saffron in the pomegranate juice at first. I only found out Mom wanted to
make Corinne pay for stealing Jeremy away after it all
happened... I was scared that Grandpa and Grandma would punish her after they found out, so that’s why I bribed the doctor to
tamper with the test result...”