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.

cameras here, ma’am. What you’re doing to the kid now is

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 with cold water.

severe burn, aren’t you going to take him to

I’m not taking him to the hospital?” The woman then

a long time, feeling heavy–hearted. “So it’s true that stepmothers are often evil.” Scott, with his head

as her was easily influenced by her surroundings. Seeing that Molly had been in the restroom for 20 minutes and hadn’t come upstairs, Scott thought she might have gotten lost, but it turned out she was just

reached out, ruffled Molly’s fluffy short hair, and said with art enigmatic tone. “Not

up at Scott and saw that his face still wore that gentle smile, but his tone was quite serious as he continued, “A foolish

by side on the spacious commercial street. Molly’s brief sorrow was quickly replaced by

at least not as bustling and hectic as Havencrest. But going to the hospital to see a psychologist on Christmas? Stephanie really had to hand

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

Today was Christmas, and she used to spend holidays with Diana. It had been a long time

new place was arranged by Oscar, and it was located in the city center, right behind Eastwall Plaza. Since the rent was quite high, she insisted on

massive Eastwall Plaza ahead and muttered to herself,

security at the

area was filled with rows of foreign–style villas. Diana chose to live here partly because she

here once before, so she roughly knew the way. However, as she walked ahead,

in her tracks, and her expression turned somewhat surprised when she saw

usually wore a gold chain and spoke in a coarse voice like a nouveau riche. Today, however, he was surprisingly dressed in a

into Diana’s window. It looked like he wanted to go