The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2121

Ivy let out a bitter chuckle, a sound laden with defeat and self-mockery.

Hearing it, Balfour felt a pang of sourness in his chest, which was an indescribable sentiment.

He couldn’t explain it, but sometimes the human heart was just that peculiar.

Before he met Ivy, he could hardly fathom that a mother could truly be indifferent to her own child.

“Clara did such awful things to me, and they never asked me about it once. They only care about my sister! Why was that?

Am I really that inadequate, that even though I’m her flesh and blood, she still can’t find it in her heart to like me? It’s just so exhausting.”

Ivy sighed deeply, then closed her eyes, feigning sleep.

Only she knew that within the confines of her heart, she was silently crying again.

looked

age that tears only meant

put on a fake sob in front of Tessa, and Tessa would

accidentally missed a step on the staircase and tumbled down, scraping her knee raw. The pain was so intense that she cried out

it hurts

calling out like that, but her mother…

perched on the couch, digging in cornflakes and

was the nanny who noticed Ivy’s mangled

a comforting embrace. Ivy only heard Tessa say with a

about the pain. She only felt that it was an

out openly every time she was

useless. If only she had been more

doubt herself more and more. As she grew older, she began to realize that