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!”

tears, unable

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

ungrateful wretch! You disregard your benefactor and call that woman Ellinor ‘mommy’! What is she to you? Did she give birth to you or adopt you?!

used the last of his strength to

woman. She’d do anything to secure her position. Do you really

defended the woman he saw as his true mother. “She is kind…even if

if they

kicked the child beneath her foot with all her might. “Fine! You think she’s better, do you? Well, let me show you

continued to brutally kick the five-year-old child at her feet.

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

act! Get up!” She snarled.