Chapter 1311

“I’ve told you a thousand times that I’m not a kid anymore!” warned Sunny.

Corinne did not take what he said to heart. She simply said, “I’m going to finish all the steak if you don’t

want to eat them.”

“I do want to eat them!” said Sunny arrogantly with a lift of his chin before grabbing some steak off the

grill. He did not have many opportunities to eat barbecue since he did not have the money to.

Lucas feared that Sunny would pick up bad habits if he gave him lots of pocket money, and he would

not allow him to eat fast food either. Thus, Sunny would either eat at the school cafeteria or at home.

It was only when Sunny got together with Xante that he got to eat outside. Frankly, he did feel ashamed

that Xante had to pay for all of their dates. Thus, he vowed to make it up to her once he got a job.

Corinne went up to her room to take a shower after she finished her dinner. Even though they had the

air-conditioner on in the dining room, the heat from the tabletop grill still caused her to sweat a little.

After she came out of the bathroom, she scrolled through her phone with one hand while drying her

hair with a towel with the other. It had been two hours since she wired the money to Jeremy, but he still

did not accept it.

Corinne did not want to owe Jeremy, so she texted him to remind him to accept the money. She wanted

to block him after he received the money since there would be no point for them to keep in contact after

that.

However, not only did Jeremy not accept the money, but he did not reply to her either.

‘Ah, well. I’ll just remind him again tomorrow if he doesn’t want to accept it today,’ thought Corinne with

a frown.

The painting had already been delivered to Corinne’s room. It was resting against the wall, waiting to

be put up. Fragmented memories from when she was little began to rush into her mind as she stared at

the painting.

‘I wonder where Mom is and how she’s doing… Why didn’t she come find me if she’s alive?’ thought

Corinne. She was only a few years old when she was separated from Emily, and fast forward to then,

she was about to become a mother herself.

Corinne touched her belly, and her expression softened. ‘Soon I’ll be able to meet you, little one.’

Suddenly, her phone rang. She snapped out of her trance and picked up her phone—it was Annie

calling.

Corinne was about to answer the call when Annie canceled the call. ‘This is weird… Did something

happen to her?’ wondered Corinne. She called her back but was rejected.

‘Something fishy is definitely going on!’ thought Corinne with a frown. She called her back again but got

the same response.

Getting more worried by the second, Corinne texted her, [Hey, are you okay? Did something happen?]

After a minute or so, Annie replied, [Yeah, I’m okay. Sorry, I pressed the wrong number. I’m outside at

the moment, so I can’t talk.]

Corinne was relieved to know Annie was alright, so she did not ask her any more questions. She put

down her phone to blow dry her hair and went to sleep.

She fell asleep quite fast, but she had a not-quite-scary but very tiring dream. She would either be

running or looking for something in her dream, causing her to wake up groggy the next day.

When she went down for breakfast, she could not help but feel like Lucas wanted to tell her something

but was stopping himself.

“Mister Lucas, why do you keep looking at me like that? Do you have something to tell me?” she asked

with a frown.