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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.

comfort and every gesture of affection

his beer, memories flooded Leo’s mind of the

a grace that seemed distant yet luminous,

she asked, a touch of exasperation in her

away as he struggled to stand amidst the pool of blood, snapping. “Stay out of it, just leave

found her

Food Snatcher

surged through him, sending him into a cold sweat and forcing him to crumple once again.

an eyebrow as she observed. She commented, “Stubborn as

glare deepened, beads of sweat trickling down his

knelt before him, her eyes bright and unflinching, undeterred by the

of kids they prefer in

the torment of his fractured bones engulfing his

well–behaved, sensible ones. They won’t even feed bread crusts

teeth, squeezing his

stood out from the rest, a girl with a darkness that matched his own, a depth that

hungry?” Maggie teased, holding out a bag of warm

allure of the hot, fragrant

buns in his current condition, but the girl caught on with just one

“Then you’ll forever be just a thief. But with a few nice words, I’ll gladly hand them over. I might even consider bringing it

a twig, let alone a blade or bullet. Are you daft?” she

tallied how many she devoured. One,

had purchased five buns, and two remained

kindness might convince her to hand over the last two buns.

pocket came from his hard–earned job. He was

gnawed with

but in the blink of an eye, she rose and

she/bid politely, yet

chuckled