The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 1874

Patricia laughed scornfully while walking downhill. “Why? Because you’re my adopted child! You’re mine, no matter how bad you are. I won’t let anyone take what’s mine!”

Baber’s eyes were filled with helplessness and despair. “But…you don’t even like kids…or me. Why can’t I stay with Mommy and Daddy?”

Upon realizing that the ‘mommy’ Baber was referring to was not her, Patricia’s temper flared. She roughly threw the little boy onto the ground.

“What did you say? Who were you calling ‘mommy’?”

The rocky path was full of thorns. Baber’s tender skin was pierced by sharp plant stems as he hit the ground, causing him to grunt in pain and furrow his

brow.

Not satisfied, Patricia cruelly kicked him. “Who were you calling ‘mommy,’ you little brat? Speak up!”

only shed silent tears, unable to make a

stomach. “You’re a traitor too! If I hadn’t adopted you from abroad, you’d still be in that poor orphanage, barely surviving on bread and water! You probably would have died from

What is

used the last of his strength

It’s all an act! Ellinor is a manipulative woman. She’d do anything to secure her position. Do you really think she sees you as a son? She doesn’t need you; she has her own children. Why would she care for an

woman he saw as his true mother. “She is kind…even if she doesn’t consider me her son…at least…she respects me… She’s

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all her might. “Fine! You think she’s better, do you? Well, let me show you just how ‘not

she spoke, she continued to brutally kick the

seemed like an eternity, the child beneath her foot finally stopped moying. Patricia stopped

your act! Get up!” She