Crossroads

Chapter 307

“Do you think all stepmothers are evil?” Molly asked as she walked out of the restaurant with a dejected look.

Just now, as she was leaving the restroom on the first floor, she saw a woman dragging a little boy around Andy’s age. 1 Molly clearly saw the little boy’s eyes reddened, and he was trying not to cry. His left arm was severely burned, and the wound was as large as an adult’s palm, with blood seeping from the second–degree burn.

Molly’s heart ached for the boy, but she was even more horrified when the woman irritably picked up the child and roughly placed his burned hand under the faucet before turning on the water at full blast. The harsh treatment made the little boy cry out in pain.

The more the little boy struggled, the angrier the woman became. She then scolded him, “Why are you crying? You embarrassed me in front of everyone. It was just a little burn from the hot grill, and you’re acting like this. How useless can you be?

“Stop crying, stop it right now! No wonder your real mom abandoned you…

Molly then gathered her courage and confronted the woman. “Hey, the kid’s burn is really severe. You need to take him to the hospital. sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Findɴovel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

But the woman, looking fierce and confrontational, snapped back. “He’s not your kid. Even if he dies, it’s none of your business/

Molly was then angered. Watch your mouth. But she wasn’t very good at arguing. Just as Molly was considering getting a restaurant employee to intervene, Scott saw her and came over.

doing to the kid now is against the law,” he said calmly. but

not spout nonsense like this. He may not be my biological son, but he is my son. I saw his hand was burned, so 1 rinsed it

such a severe burn, aren’t you going to take

to the hospital?” The woman then angrily

stood rooted to the spot for a long time, feeling heavy–hearted. “So it’s true that stepmothers are often evil.” Scott, with

been in the restroom for 20 minutes and hadn’t come upstairs, Scott thought she might have gotten

Molly’s fluffy short hair, and said with

wore that gentle smile, but his tone was quite serious as

on the spacious commercial street. Molly’s brief sorrow was quickly replaced by anger as she thought irritably. This pretentious jerk! Nothing good ever comes

pretty comfortable pace of life, at least not as bustling and hectic as Havencrest. But going

hospital, she felt somewhat down. The taxi driver asked Stephanie several times where she wanted to go. and she couldn’t help but feel a bit ironic since she didn’t know herself. While gazing out at

address sinhdenly came to mind.

was Christmas, and she used to spend holidays with Diana. It had been a long time since they last met, and although there was some estrangerment, they were

was located in the city center, right behind Eastwall Plaza. Since the rent was quite

out of the car at the entrance of the neighborhood, she looked thoughtfully at the massive Eastwall Plaza ahead and muttered to

and speaking to the security at the

here partly because she wanted Stephanie to live with her, but she couldn’t convince

the way. However, as she walked ahead, she noticed a

saw a

surprisingly dressed in a proper suit,

It looked