Chapter 17

Pia laughed out loud at the child’s shy confession as she hugged his neck with her small hand and whispered. “I like you too.” “Really?” “then asked.” “Do you really like me?” “of course.” “Then will you stay here with me? You wouldn’t leave?” “that…….” “If you like it, I won’t leave.” But it wasn’t up to her to decide. It’s up to her employer, Henry Dale, to decide most of all, if she’ll stay here for the rest of her life. I had no intention of working as a tutor. Leon will also grow over time.

When he enters adolescence, maybe he will go to a place like a boarding school. And at that time she might already have opened a bookstore she has dreamed of for a long time. ‘But he’d be disappointed if I said that, right? “yes. Because I like you, I won’t leave and I’ll stay here.” “Then promise.” Leon held out his little pinky. Hooking her pinky on his and shook twice. It meant promise. *** ‘yes?’

Pia narrowed her eyes. After making a snowman, she washed Leon’s hands in warm water and found red marks on his neck. ‘What is this? Scratch marks?’ ” Let’s take our clothes off for a moment. We don’t want our inner clothes to get wet.” Pia rolled up Leon’s sleeve a little more. It was then that she saw red marks coiled around his slender wrists like snakes. Not just one or two, but several. ‘Maybe this is……’ Pia has seen traces like this before.

Back when she was still in the orphanage, she saw this often. In the past, one of the teachers who worked at the orphanage was very violent and often beat the children. She uses something like a leather belt, and the children’s arms, legs, and waists were whipped, leaving scars like this. ‘This is absolutely a whip wound. But who…’ Who in this mansion would dare beat Leon with something like a leather belt? ‘Is it Mr Dale?” He always has a gloomy expression on her face.

There was no way Ji and other servants would beat Leon. Who would beat the employer’s son this badly? There was only one man in this mansion in a position to do so, Henry Dale. If the sickly employer was so cruel to his son, ‘You have to stop it. How can you do this “Leon. These marks…” However, Leon tilted his head as his clear eyes twinkled. “Who did this?”
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