Facade of Love

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Chapter 342 Overheard by Chance

With eamest eyes, Ariel offered me her well–won but dearly cherished stuffed rabbit

I was honestly taken aback that she wanted the backpack “You don’t have to trade,” I said. ” Consider the badpack a gift. Let’s be friends, okay?”

The little girl paused, fidgeting for a few seconds before she shyly pulled a piece of candy from her cat and handed it to me. “For you,” she said.

I was toured, a smile spreading across my face as I accepted the candy and handed her the backpack

With the backpack now in her arms, she beamed and scampered off to where the other kids were resting

Surprised, I turned to Idris. “How did you know she would like the backpack??”

littis looked as calm as ever. “She’s been eyeing that bag for a while. It was pretty obvious.”

Wel

He was quite observant, huh?

After we finished handing out items, with the snow coming down hard outside, we were concerned about the kids catching a chill, so everyone stayed in to play.

had never been great with kids, so I sat out, and Idris did too. He was like a statue when he was quiet

in the classroom, I invited

he said out

tone, “This land is owned by Young Corporation. It’s included in the new

clear out.”

news that he blurted out was unexpected. I looked at him and asked, “Where will all these

needed food, clothes, and all the

his lips. “Do you really see me as some cold -hearted tycoon?”

was not that I saw him that way. It was just that relocating all those kids would cost a fortune. Business was business, and the land was the Youngs‘ to start with. The fact remained that if they did not find a

in his voice. “You know, Grandma gave a lot

Madam Young.

hit me like a flashback to a

built schools in the mountains, donated to charities,

guilt, pouring her heart into charity work

down the hallway, the falling snow painting a serene picture outside. “Getting these kids settled, giving them a chance at a different life…. that’s something

call. I

has been digging for answers lately, and I wondered how that was going. I knew the whole story but could not find the words

a rock and a hard place. On one side, there was the Youngs trust in me, and on the other, the truth that weighed

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