Chapter 817

Chapter 817

However, Corinne had her reason for ending the call so quickly. She heard a noise outside her window,

and she did not tell Jeremy because she did not want to worry him.

After hanging up, she went to the window and peeked outside. “Is anyone there?”

No one replied, which bewildered her as she was certain she heard something.

She then looked down, and her pupils dilated when she saw a child hanging precariously from the

balcony railing of the next room. He could have fallen!

Although they were only on the second floor, it would still be dangerous for such a small child. to fall

from there.

“Don’t move! It’s dangerous!”

Without thinking twice, Corinne immediately stepped over the balcony railing to save the child. After

grabbing him, she stepped over the balcony railing again and brought him into the

room.

The child was, of course, none other than Joey who Anya emotionally blackmailed Jeremy into

adopting with her. His head was still thickly wrapped with bandages due to the injury he suffered two

days ago.

Corinne put Joey down and got down to his eye level. “Why were you all alone on the balcony?

Where’s your nanny?” she asked sternly.

Joey backed away from her fearfully and fearfully stared at her. “Bad… Bad guy…”

Corinne was none too happy about being called a ‘bad guy’ after saving him. “Who told you to call me

that?”

“Mama…” answered Joey shakily.

Corinne chuckled wryly. “Then is your mama a good guy?”

Joey fell silent. The thought of Anya made him shake his head fearfully.

Corinne was stunned. “That means he knows Anya’s true colors… He must’ve suffered a lot. under her

hand.’

“Why did you run off all alone? Don’t you know how dangerous that is? Don’t you ever do that again,

okay? You could’ve fallen if I didn’t save you in time.”

Joey was still unable to form a complete sentence, so he just said the keywords, “Scare… Run…

Oopsie fall…”

Corinne frowned. “What were you scared of?”

Joey’s eyes started to redden. He looked around to make sure Anya was not around before crying and

answering, “Scare mama… Scare…”

Corinne knew Anya only saw Joey as a tool to keep Jeremy around, and with her plan having

backfired, keeping him around was pointless. It did not take a genius to guess how Anya would treat

Joey from there on.

“What happened? Did she hit you?”

“Hot…” Joey pointed to his mouth. “Eat… Hot… Angry…”

Corinne looked at his lips. ‘It looks like it was burned not too long ago. How can she bear to do

something like this to a child so young?’

As she was going to be a mother herself, she could not help but feel sadness and rage at seeing a

child being treated like this.

“Let’s go and tell your uncle who did this to you.” Corinne scooped up Joey and took him to find Lucas.

She might not like him, but she had to admit he was fair, unlike the despicable Anya.

Besides, he was the only one in the entire family who Anya was scared of. He would definitely be able

to bring justice to Joey.

However, Joey immediately broke out in sobs when he heard what Corinne was going to do.

“No! No… no go out… No!” he kept crying while struggling to free himself from Corinne’s arms.