The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 712

Upstairs in the Howard family’s mansion, there were two special rooms. One was where Balfour’s biological mother used to live with his father, and the other belonged to his full-blooded sister, Pearl.

Fifteen years had passed, and nothing in these two rooms had changed It had become a no-go zone for the Howard family.

The Howards’ servants had to get the green light from Balfour before they could go in to do their daily cleaning

Balfour shut the door and plopped down on a chair in front of the dressing table.

The chair was a bit snug for the nearly two-meter-tall guy, but for Balfour, this place was packed full of childhood memories.

There was a ten-year age gap between him and his sister, Pearl. As a kid, he spent more time taking care of Pearl than their parents did

Every night he would sit here, reading fairy tales to Pearl and helping her drift off to sleep.

still a place of harmony.

then their father’s affair was exposed, and he had a child from

so distraught that she couldn’t pull herself together, causing their parents to

to her room and read her stories, trying to divert her attention away from their parents’ fights so she wouldn’t be

wasn’t a Howard, but a child their mother had with another

wasn’t home because

his grandparents asked his father to take Pearl for a paternity test.

to her dignity and a blow to Pearl’s psyche, so she stood her ground against it.

after a heated

with a daughter about the same age as

was now

a minor with no say in many

he was adamant about his stepmother not moving into his mother’s room and Patricia