Chapter 671

It was Joey.

Previously, she kept pestering Jeremy to accompany her in adopting a child from overseas. However,

the child still did not have an official name. Lately, she was not interested in taking care of the child

herself and has left it to the nanny to handle all day long. Mostly, she was too lazy to take care of the

child!

This child used to have some value for her as a major excuse to cling to Jeremy and briefly hold his

attention. But things are different now. Jeremy already knows that Corinne is carrying his child, so he

won’t care about this adopted child without a blood relationship.

Thus, this child has become a burden, with no utility or value left. Anya never truly loved this child,

aside. from considering it as a tool for her benefit. She never had any genuine affection for the child.

All the tenderness and maternal gestures she displayed toward the child in the past were only an act

put on for Jeremy! When there was nobody around, she could not be bothered to pretend anymore!

At this moment, Anya is in a bad mood, and looking at this child who is no longer of any use to her only.

makes her angrier! When the child comes over wanting a hug, Anya, devoid of any love, impatiently

pushes away Joey, who was still unsteady on his feet.

“Get away! Stay far away from me! You little brat, all you do is eat and cry all day long. Aren’t you tired

of being annoying?”

Joey fell to the ground, completely shocked and helpless, looking at his mother with a bewildered

expression, then bursting into tears, feeling deeply wronged.

Anya felt annoyed and extremely bothered by the loud crying of the child. In frustration, she reached

out and forcefully pinched and twisted the flesh on Joey’s body.

“Crying, crying, crying! All you know is crying! I have so many people serving you, taking care of your

food and drink every day. What else do you have to cry about? Let me tell you, if it weren’t for my kind

heart in adopting you, you would still be eating scraps in that impoverished orphanage. Would you be

able to enjoy such good food now?”

“Don’t be ungrateful! Generally speaking, people of your lowly status have no right to step foot into the

Riveras. You should be grateful to me instead of crying all the time!”

‘That’s enough! Stop crying! Cry some more, and I’ll use a needle to end you! Shut up, do you hear

me? Are you going to cry or not?”

While Anya scolded, she continued pinching and twisting different parts of Joey’s body, venting her

pent- up frustrations.

However, Joey had no understanding of what he did wrong to make his mother angry. He only knew

that he was in pain from being pinched, so he Instinctively cried even harder, “Waah!”

The more the child cried, the more fiercely Anya pinched him.

This was not the first time Anya treated Joey like this. Whenever she was unhappy, she liked to vent to

the child, resorting to physical abuse and sometimes even using needles on him multiple times.

Of course, she only did these things when nobody else was around.

Lacking a sense of security and understanding of the world’s rules, Joey believed that he could not

resist what his mother did to him. So even though he cried, he would still seek reliance and call out to

Anya as his mother.

“Why is the child crying? What’s going on?” Lucas, hearing the child’s agonizing cries, forcefully

pushed the door open and entered the room!

At this moment, Anya’s hand was still firmly pinching the child.