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!”

in time? And how could we have admitted it? Once admitted, it becomes something that can’t be changed. You wouldn’t have a

outcome would be better than being banished to the

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

keep an eye on them. Once they reached the countryside, they

was not the life she

it, the more unwilling Patricia felt, and the more she wanted

so bitterly, Xenia, despite her annoyance at Patricia’s reproach and misunderstanding, still felt a twinge of pity for her.

time for us to be at each other’s throats! If we let differences come between us, wouldn’t that just make Ellinor happy, giving

them, Patricia tried hard to stop crying. She wouldn’t let that detestable Ellinor laugh

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 my father, and even the opportunity to kidnap Theo. There’s no

thought for a moment and checked what the servants around 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