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.

he looked at her with eyes

only meant something when shed

do was put on a fake sob in front of Tessa, and Tessa

staircase and tumbled down, scraping her knee raw. The pain was so

hurts so

out like that, but

digging in cornflakes and watching TV, not sparing

the nanny who noticed Ivy’s mangled knee and scooped her up to tend to

passed by, she cast a glance at lvy, who was reaching out for a comforting embrace. Ivy only heard Tessa say with a disgusted tone, “Seriously, you can’t even handle walking down the stairs. Be more careful next

She only felt that it was an

dared not cry out openly every time she was hurt.

only she had been more careful,

Ivy doubt herself more and more. As she grew older, she began