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‘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
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtwas 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.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmHe 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.
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