Chapter 32: Childhood

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Reyes saw that Toya was acting recklessly, so he softened his tone and coaxed, “Let me take you to the infirmary and get the school doctor to disinfect you, okay?”

Toya pursed her lips and said nothing.

However, she clearly looked like she was refusing.

Reyes stood up to help her up by the shoulders, but she dodged him, too.

“I’m not going.”

She was barefooted and her eyes were slightly red. It was obvious that she had just cried. She did not want others to see her being so weak, as if she was easy to bully.

Reyes squatted again and touched the red marks on her feet with a tissue.

Toya flinched and felt a small stab of pain.

She was a little angry. “What are you doing?”

Reyes’s expression was indifferent, and he was not frightened by her fierce roar.

“I thought you didn’t hurt.”

Toya was angry and ignored him.

Reyes coughed and his tone softened again. “Since you know it hurts, deal with it, okay?”

Showing weakness did work for Toya. She glanced at Reyes, as if trying to gauge his sincerity.

After looking at her for a while, she realized that he really just wanted to treat her wound. She said slowly, “It’s embarrassing. I don’t want to go to the infirmary.”

“Then go home?”

Toya still resisted. She did not want the driver and butler to see her in a sorry state.

In the past, she could go home and complain to her father when she was injured. She would not care if it was shameful or not. But now, no one was supporting her. The dignity that her fathers had given her seemed especially important.

Reyes hesitated. “I have an apartment near the school. I usually live alone.”

He tried not to sound ambiguous. “There’s medicine for wounds in the apartment. You can use it.”

Toya said, “I won’t die without medicine.”

She was just barefooted and was scratched by a rock a few times. What serious injury could there be?

Reyes gave her a look and got up to leave.

Toya, thinking that he really didn’t care about her, watched him leave with widened eyes.

She didn’t have any shoes now, so it was inconvenient for her to go anywhere. Was Reyes going to let her walk around barefoot since he didn’t care about her?

Then why did he clean the sole of her foot so seriously just now? Anyway, it would get stuck again when she left barefooted!

Toya gritted her teeth. Her eyes were filled with anger, as if she wanted to burn a hole in Reyes’s back!

In her eyes, Reyes, who had left, was a jerk!

Toya was angry, and Reyes felt it immediately.

He glanced back at her, just in time to meet her angry, aggrieved eyes.

He found it funny and waved his phone while explaining, “I’ll go make a call and come back later.”

Toya looked away and ignored him.

However, her face was clearly blushing.

A cry came from the lake and attracted her attention. She looked at the duck seriously to relieve her embarrassment.

The ducks swam toward her. Probably because they had been fed by the students at noon, they swam very slowly and swayed. They were in no hurry at all, like a group of idle children on an outing.

The formation was not as orderly as before. There were even some who fell behind.

The duckling circled the water in front of Toya and swam away again.

Toya stared at the duckling in a daze.

She thought of Carter and her entire body started to feel uncomfortable.

Carter and Anna were both the children of her dead brother, Brown.

The year her mother died, her father threw a huge tantrum and drove her brothers out of Madison’s family villa, leaving her alone with her sister, Fisher, who was about to get married.

She was six that year, and was the youngest child of her father. Anna was seven, and Carter was four and a half.

Her eldest brother, Brown Madison, had been good to her mother before she became pregnant. Even his two children had been close to her. Many of her childhood memories were related to them.

Although she was older than the two of them and was their aunt, she was younger than Anna. Anna did not like to call her aunt. When she called her, she would call her by her name. Carter learned from his sister. Sometimes he would call her aunt, and sometimes, he called her by her name.

Children’s friendships were always full of twists and turns. She and Anna were more aggressive and always quarreled and snatched each other’s toys. But they always reconciled quickly. The adults ignored them when they argued, but only Carter, the child, insisted on joining them every time.

Of course he wasn’t going to help his sister, Anna, because Anna was a year older than she was. Most of the time, she couldn’t beat her. Carter would help her if he saw it.

Before her mother died, it didn’t seem like the Madison family was that scheming.

Perhaps there was, but at least on the surface, it was harmonious.

Later, after her mother died and after Hernandez had finished the funeral, he called his five sons to the study. When they came out, Toya saw that everyone was injured.

She knew that her father had blown his top..