Still Loving You Nonetheless novel Chapter 407

Chapter 407 “A little” Meredith smileri, embarrassed. “Hold on a little longer. We’ll come again tomorrow.”
Just when they were about to leave, Meredith realized a little boy squatting down by the corner of the field. The boy was in an extremely white set of clothes. He looked a little thin.
He stared at the children playing in the field with two big eyes. They could see that he wanted to play with the other children, but due to some reason, he did not join them.
Meredith got herself free from Josiah’s grasp and walked over to the little boy. She bent down and asked him gently, “Hey, kid, why are you here alone? Don’t you want to play with the other children?”
The little boy shook his head and said nothing.
“What do you mean by shaking your head?” Meredith thought seriously. “Hmm. Let me guess. You shook your head, meaning you don’t want to play with the other children?” The little boy nodded a little.
“Then, why don’t you like playing with them?” Meredith asked once again.
“Because they keep saying that I don’t have a mommy and daddy. I’m an orphan.” “Orphan?” Meredith was stunned.
Right at that moment, a teacher coincidentally came over and pulled the little boy away from the corner while saying to Meredith respectfully, “Mrs. Shelby. Caden’s parents passed away in a car crash when he was one. He was sent to an orphanage by his relatives, which was why he became an orphan.”
Meredith suddenly hushed the teacher. She reprimanded in a soft tone, “How could you say such a thing in front of the boy. He will be sad.”
The teacher was stunned speechless. She immediately apologized, “I’m sorry. I never thought about it.”
Surely enough, Caden became even sadder when he heard about his parents passing away in a car crash.
Meredith looked at Caden’s huge watery eyes. It was as if something had pricked her. Her heart hurt a httle. She felt that the eyes filled with hope and despair seemed somewhat familiar. She pat Caden on the head. “Caden, don’t cry. You’re not an orphan, Miss Leighton will be your mommy in the future, how about that?”
Caden and the other teacher stared at her in surprise with widened eyes.
Josiah was speechless too.
Meredith did not seem to sense their surprise. She caressed Caden’s face. “Let’s go. Mommy’s taking you home.”
“Mrs. Shelby, this is quite inappropriate, right?” The teacher immediately pulled Caden back and chuckled dryly, “The orphanage did not send Caden over here to live with us. We still have to send him back to the orphanage. If you like Caden, you can try to go through the adoption process with the orphanage.” “Then, let’s go to the orphanage to adopt Caden ” Meredith turned around to Josiah and said, “Joe, Caden can’t live without a mommy and daddy. Let’s adopt him home.”
Joe was speechless. He sighed helplessly and said patiently, “Edit, we need to go through a legal procedure to adopt a child. We are not up to the standards for adoption.”
“Why are we not up to the standards?”
“Because…” Josiah initially wanted to say that they have a child under their name, but he swallowed those words back down. Instead, he said, “Because we are not of age yet. We are still young. We can have children on our own.”
Although Josiah spoiled her, it was not up to the point where they would adopt an orphan.
After all, this has to do with the family’s reputation, profits, and other reasons. Most importantly, there were so many orphans in this world as pitiful as Caden. How many could they adopt?
“But Caden is so pitiful without parents. I want to help him,” Meredith tugged on the corner of his shirt and said coquettishly, “Joe, don’t be so cold. I want to help him. I’m begging you.”