The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

Chapter 1883

As Melinda stepped out, Maxwell approached and asked, "What happened to Emily? Is she sick?"

Melinda glared at Maxwell and replied sharply, "She's not sick. She's injured."

Startled, Maxwell asked worriedly, "Injured? How did she get hurt? Who did this to her?" "You did!" replied Melinda with a darkened expression.

Maxwell was stunned and ashamed to the point of speechlessness.

Melinda continued angrily, "You caused all this! Emily wouldn't have to entrust Corinne to the Carews if your family hadn't forced her to take desperate measures. Corinne wouldn't have suffered so much from a young age, and Emily wouldn't have gone to confront Marvin, which led her to end up getting slashed by his crazy wife! You've already made things hard enough for Emily. If you have any conscience left, please stay away from her! You've seen it yourself how much she doesn't want to see you!"

Maxwell felt a sense of shame but also confusion. "I admit I’ve let her down, but why would she avoid me or entrust Corinne to someone else? I've been trying to find her..."

when she heard that. "Maxwell, how can you even ask such a question at this point? If your family hadn't sent people everywhere to hunt down Emily and her daughter back then, do you think she'd willingly leave her child with someone else? Your family didn't believe in her innocence. Your parents thought she had ruined your family's reputation, and because of that, she can't even return to her own family. She feared bringing trouble to them, so she went into hiding with Corinne! And now, you're here

her

to be blameless! How

him so much!' "Enough, I'm busy! Emily is waiting for me to call the doctor! If you have even a bit

this, Melinda walked past him to

his mind went over what Melinda

who had been observing from a distance, approached him with a concerned

snapped out of his thoughts, waved his

Let's go home."

supporting his somewhat absent-minded father as they

men watch over this ward. Make sure they're not alerted of this," said Maxwell sometime

witnessed everything earlier. He already guessed