The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 1707

However, he still missed the time when he was an only child.

Back then, his dad was still at home, and his mom would only fuss over him.

It was blissful.

That was when he first experienced the warmth of a family. But not long after, his mother left him because she was pregnant and had to give birth to his siblings.

Even though he didn’t fully understand why his mom had to leave, he clearly felt that he was less important to her than the child in her womb.

Indeed, how could he compete with the children in his mother’s belly?

How could an adopted child compare to a biological child?

He was simply overestimating himself. He thought too much of himself by thinking that he held the same status as his siblings.

Today, he realized that whenever the snacks were limited, he was the one who wouldn’t get any.

bag of

heart was heavy, conflicted, and insecure. He longed for attention, yet he felt that

disarray as he sat at his dad’s desk and flipped through the comic books his dad had bought him. He couldn’t focus

books and returned

for him a long time ago. When his mom returned, he started to sleep with his siblings in his mom’s room, rarely sleeping on his

alone here in the future, so as not to take up space and compete for his mother’s love with his

he was not valued, he still cherished

biological parents were or what their names

bed, crying

to unload the stuff from her car while she went upstairs with two bags of snacks for

seemed upset when he couldn’t have any snacks, so she bought

for dinner.

not there. Ellinor turned

back to

the snacks and check her own room, she thought better of it, knowing