"Stop it. Anyway, as the years passed, I became very attached to him. I begged him to adopt me but he kept saying no. I eventually got to know that he instructed the management of the orphanage to never allow me to get adopted by anyone."
"Why?" Jake asked.
"Because he wanted to adopt me," Mamba answered. "He did when I was 16. He got me a small apartment close to his home. When I got into college, he paid for everything including martial arts lessons, weapon training, pro swimming classes with award-winning tutors and language lessons."
"Wow…"
"I was so grateful to him, I thought he was an angel sent from heaven to turn my life around. But all of that changed shortly after my 21st birthday…"
"What happened?"
"There was this boy I met in college. I liked him very much a
