The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

Chapter 39

Marvin was a little more inclined toward believing Corinne and thus asked her again, “Do you swear you’re telling the truth? You’re not lying to me, are you?”

Corinne kept her calm and assured him, “Don’t worry, Dad. I’ll never do that sort of scandalous thing.

Marvin breathed a sigh of relief. “You don’t know how relieved I am! Don’t you ever end up doing bad stuff, okay? I’d be such a disappointment to your late mother if you did!”

Sherlyn was furious to see Marvin’s sudden change of attitude toward Corinne, and she tried to complain again, “Dad, even if Corinne isn’t a bar hostess, her actual job isn’t much better either! I didn’t want to tell you this because I’m worried that you’d get angry if you find out, but since it’s clear that Corinne shows no intention of learning from her mistakes, I think it’s only right for me to say something as her sister! Here goes… The truth is, Corinne’s working as a maid for a rich family! The landlord she mentioned is actually her employer!”

“What?” Marvin frowned again and looked at Corinne unhappily. “Is that true? Are you now working as a maid?”

“Hmm, I guess…you could say that?” Corinne felt that her predicament was somewhat similar to that of a maid, notably in that she was ‘enslaved’ by Jeremy and forced into cooperating with his requests at all times as his pretend-wife.

at Alpha Enterprises just so you could change careers and

and said, “Corinne was fired by Alpha Enterprises! I don’t even want to know what

at Corinne in disappointment. “When will you stop making me worry so much? You know what, I’m not going to care about you anymore. You’re free to work as a maid if you want, but you’d better not tell anyone that you’re my daughter. I can’t afford

the topic of my graduation thesis is “The Development of Industries Related to Domestic Service’. The ingredients necessary for a good thesis is to experience first-hand the work life of someone in the domestic services industry. Besides, I don’t think there’s any

that his youngest daughter’s words made perfect sense. His displeased expression softened

about my graduation thesis, Dad. Though I must say that you should advise Sherlyn

“What did your

puzzled look too. “Advise me? Why? What do you mean by that, Corinne? Why are you asking Dad to advise

been difficult for you to struggle on your own. You should’ve told us earlier if you were bullied. Why would you deal with it all by yourself?”

on earth are you talking about,