The Day I Kissed An Older Man

In the end, Phoebe said sulkily, “Wait here. I’ll go check if he’s woken up from his nap.”
Corinne smiled, satisfied. “Okay. Thank you, Miss Phoebe.”
After a while, Phoebe came back with Joey.
Joey looked fearfully around the room. His eyes immediately lit up when he saw Corinne, but they quickly dimmed again.
Even though growing up in the orphanage turned Joey into a sensitive and insecure child, Corinne still remembered the look of
awe in his eyes when she first met him.
That was why it was especially jarring for her to realize Joey had become so fearful through his stay with Anya and Phoebe that
he did not even dare to look others in the eye anymore. His whole body language screamed how he wished he was dead.
Corinne could not help but see herself in him.
She waved him over. “Come here, Joey.”
Joey instinctively took a few steps back before turning up his head to look at Phoebe.
Phoebe thought there was no point in stopping Corinne from talking to Joey since she already brought him there, so she said
sarcastically to Joey, “What are you standing there for? Go to her now!”
Joey, being young, could not tell when a grown-up was sarcastic. He thought Phoebe meant what she said, so he cautiously
made his way to Corinne.
Corinne stroked his bony cheeks. “Look at how scrawny you’ve become. Are you not eating well?”Books Chapters Are Daily
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Joey’s first instinct was not to answer Corinne’s question but to look at Phoebe to see whether he was allowed to say anything.
Phoebe gave him a look, and Joey immediately knew that was his cue to keep his mouth shut. Scared, he shrank back a little
and said nothing.
Corinne frowned when she saw the many bruises and wounds on Joey’s skin.
“How did you get all those bruises and cuts?” she asked him.

Joey looked down and shook his head.
Corinne knew he was too scared to speak, so she said gently, “There’s nothing to be scared of, little guy. You can tell me
anything. No one can hurt you as long as I’m here.”
Joey looked up at her anxiously. He opened his mouth to say something, but he immediately closed it and hung his head low
when he heard Phoebe clearing her throat.
Seeing this caused Corinne to frown.
“Miss Corinne, there’s no point in asking a kid who can barely reply to all those questions. Plus, he’s at the age where all he does
is run around knocking into things, so it’s not surprising he’d get all those bruises and cuts. I guess boys will always be boys,”
said Phoebe.
Corinne secretly balled her hands into fists. She wanted so badly to curse Anya and Phoebe for hurting Joey and taking out their
anger on him.