The Kiss that Sparked it All

Balfour looked shocked, “You knew?”

Ellinor continued her nonchalant attitude, “Hmm, yeah, I knew.”

Balfour was puzzled, “When did you find out?”

Ellinor replied casually. “A long time ago, probably not long after I met you”

Balfour was even more confused, “If you knew back then, why didn’t you tell me?”

Ellinor chuckled as if mocking him, “Even if I told you, you wouldn’t have believed me. All along, haven’t I just been a plain Jane with ambitions in your eyes who just wants to get ahead using power?

Just think about it, if I suddenly showed up saying I’m your long-lost sister, you’d probably think I’m a pain in the ass and that I’m full of tricks, trying to worm my way into your rich family, right?”

Balfour’s face stiffened a bit. In front of the sister he lost and found again, he, as a brother, felt extremely awkward, “I was prejudiced against you back then, it was my bad. I’m sorry. How can I make it up to you?”

“No need! You don’t have to do this! You’re Patricia’s good brother, not

rejection of him, but he stressed with a frown, “Ellinor, we share blood. I am your brother and always will be!”

her chair, looking

we are just strangers who happened to have the same mother.

you before, and I did a lot of things that

girl like me who grew up in the countryside without any manners, and I don’t like a man like you

it’s not as you think.”

fact, he admired Ellinor in his heart, but because of Patri, he had been

Balfour wanted to talk to her in

didn’t

and politely. “Thanks for the breakfast, I’m honored to have

“If you’d like, I can make this