The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 991

That time, on the way to the countryside.

Bawling her eyes out, Patricia reproached her mother, “Mom, look at the mess you’ve made! Now we’re being shipped off to the boondocks!”

Xenia was already feeling low, and her daughter’s reproach only made it worse.

“Patri, I can take it from others, but how could you say that to me? Who am I doing all this for, if not you?”

Patricia, at this point, had no patience to understand her mother and retorted, “I know you did it for me, but you didn’t help at all. You just made things worse! Mom, we would’ve been better off admitting our mistakes in front of Grandpa and Grandma; maybe they would have given us another chance instead of sending us off to the countryside!”

you’re blaming me? Didn’t you also fail to admit your mistake in time? And how could we have admitted it? Once admitted,

understood the logic, of course. She just felt that even the worst outcome would be better than being banished to the boonies!

countryside, but he didn’t specify for how long. Would they ever be

on them. Once they reached the countryside,

was not the

she thought about it, the more unwilling Patricia felt, and

her annoyance at Patricia’s reproach and misunderstanding, still felt a twinge of pity for her. After all, she was relying

Xenia patted her daughter’s shoulder, trying to console Patricia, “All right, all right! No more crying! Patri now’s not the time for us to be

Patricia tried hard to stop crying.

her mother, “What can we do now? I’ve lost my brother’s trust and affection, lost the love of my grandparents, the sympathy of my father, and even the

them were doing. Some were on their phones, and others were dozing off. Then, she whispered to her daughter, “I don’t have an effective plan to change the situation right now. We