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Chapter 236 Food Snatcher

Maggie’s eyes shimmered with moisture as she gave a weak smile, shifting the conversation.

Leo shared a similar background with Maggie, yet their paths diverged.

His mother, once Joshua’s mistress, was a fleeting figure that disappeared soon in his life.

She had hoped to manipulate Joshua through Leo, using cunning ways to conceive his child.

But when she tried to leverage the child, Joshua had grown indifferent, showing no interest in the child she had schemed to bring into the world.

The woman’s efforts to manipulate Joshua blew up in her face, resulting in threats, bribes, and finally. expulsion with a stern warning.

This descent into madness left Leo to navigate a childhood marred by abuse.

In her rare moments of clarity, she’d shower him with maternal affection, but in her darker times, she’d unleash verbal and physical torment upon him.

Raised without a father and in such tumultuous conditions, Leo forged a resilient and hardened shell,

Yet, he quickly learned that sheer strength wasn’t enough without a solid support network by his side.

Hence, the lad who once frolicked in the mud mastered the art of projecting the image of a model. student, at least on the surface.

He realised that by adopting the persona of a courteous and capable individual, he could earn trust effortlessly, bypassing the necessity for physical confrontation.

Experiencing the dark side of human behaviour from an early age, he cultivated a frostier demeanour, seamlessly merging it with his natural aloofness.

His interactions were always polite, never condescending, yet his true essence remained veiled. He observed others discreetly, responding to provocation with calculated ferocity.

Similar to Maggie, he was thrust into maturity ahead of his time, relegated to the role of a supporting

character.

of affection

flooded Leo’s mind of the moments when

days, she possessed a grace that seemed distant yet luminous, akin to a glowing moon.

she asked, a

bristled at her interference, pushing her away as he struggled to stand amidst the pool of blood, snapping. “Stay out of it, just leave me

cautious as a leopard, he found her naivety and

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through him, sending him into a cold

arching an eyebrow as she observed. She commented, “Stubborn as a mule. No wonder you keep landing in

deepened, beads of sweat trickling

her eyes bright and unflinching,

what kind of kids they prefer in orphanages?” she queried.

torment of his fractured

won’t even feed bread crusts to children like you,” Maggie declared earnestly.

gritted his teeth, squeezing his eyes shut against

rest, a girl with a darkness that matched his own, a depth that drew

holding out a bag

the hot, fragrant buns, even though he didn’t

grab the buns in his current condition, but the girl caught on

words, I’ll gladly hand

point? You can’t even handle a twig, let alone a blade or bullet. Are you daft?”

on the bun. Leo quietly tallied how many she devoured. One, two, three. Her pace slowed down, showing that she

purchased five buns, and two remained

contemplated whether a few words of kindness might convince her

vanished for five days, and every cent in his pocket came from his hard–earned job. He was accused of

gnawed with hunger

metallic tang lingered in his throat as he pondered how to plead for help, but in the blink of an eye, she rose and tossed the last

she/bid politely, yet

actions, Leo chuckled softly, marveling