Chapter 72: A Life Saved

It was the weekend.

Normally, the students of class 22D would not have a break, but their progress had far exceeded Tina's expectations, so she allowed them to take a regular weekend. On this day off, Hugo and Jennie went back to Jennie's hometown.

There had been an incident in Jennie's family. She didn't specify what, only mentioning it was inconvenient to take Zackary along and asked Tina to look after him. Jennie had prepared both breakfast and lunch; all Tina needed to do was heat them up.

Tina, having no experience with children, occasionally played with Zackary when Hugo and the others were home.

After playing with toys for half an hour, Zackary grew bored. "Tina, I don't want to play with toys anymore."

"What would you like to play then?" Tina's own childhood hadn't been joyful, and she didn't know what children his age enjoyed.

Zackary looked down, too scared to speak.

Although Tina was gentle, he was inexplicably frightened of her.

He was afraid that if he asked for too much, Tina would get angry.

His mother had instructed him not to anger Tina and to always listen to her.

"Are you very scared of me?" Tina sat next to him and gently touched his head, trying to soften her voice as much as possible.

"I-I'm not scared!" Zackary said, conflicted.

He didn't want to lie, but telling the truth might hurt Tina.

Tina could sense the boy's dilemma, pinched the bridge of her nose in resignation, and wondered if she really looked that intimidating.

She always spoke to Zackary in the gentlest tones and couldn't understand where the fear stemmed from.

angry with you. You don't have to be afraid of me. Whatever you want to do, just tell me. As long as it's

courage to say, "Then, can I go to the amusement park? Mom and dad promised me we'd go a long time ago, but we never did." "Okay,"

expected Tina to say yes without any hesitation, and his eyes

and stroked his head. "Really,

on the sofa, gave Tina a kiss, and ran off to

sudden kiss, taking a while

the first boy

a taxi, and they headed

were halfway there, Tina's phone

It was Sophia.

at your home? I came

taken aback. "You're at

Hayden are here too. Jared has been knocking on your door for a long time. Miss Reed, where did you go?" Sophia asked. Tina was at a loss for words, wondering why Jared seemed

amusement park. No one's

to come too.

Tina could reply, Sophia

Tina was left speechless.

park was filled with parked cars. The taxi could not get through and stopped at the nearest restaurant to the park. Tina paid

soon as she got out, she heard someone crying out in panic, "Mom, what's wrong? Don't scare me! Can someone

forties, dressed

watch; some pulled out their phones to call

my mother!" The wealthy woman, realizing her mother was no longer

hesitating

Sophia, and if she intervened again, her identity could be exposed to

Tina hesitated, Zackary

to him,

lady. Others look down on mom and me, but she always smiles and talks to

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