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!”

admit your mistake in time? And how could we have admitted it? Once admitted,

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

said they were to live in the countryside, but he didn’t specify for how long. Would

this trip, obviously assigned by Grandpa to keep an eye on them. Once they reached the countryside, they probably wouldn’t even have the

was not the

Patricia felt, and the more she wanted

bitterly, Xenia, despite her annoyance at Patricia’s reproach and misunderstanding, still felt a

to console Patricia, “All right, all right! No more crying! Patri now’s not the time for us to be at

mother mention Ellinor would laugh at them, Patricia tried hard to stop crying. She wouldn’t let

her tears and looked up at 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

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 need some