"I am fully responsible for your life here, of course it's no problem." Esmeralda chuckled. "You will get your own room when we return to the mansion, I have asked someone to prepare it."
"Isn't this troublesome for you?" asked the boy.
Esmeralda chuckled again, she stroked Rudy's hair gently. "Why bother? Just think of me as your family, so there's no need to feel awkward."
"I've never had a family so I don't know how to treat you as family."
That answer made everyone silent. They looked at Esmeralda with complaints, regretting how the woman could act so stupidly.
"Then I will tell you what a family is like. A good family is generally filled with people who love you sincerely. Family is someone who will protect you at all times and people who do not expect anything in return in
