The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2250

Diana had no intention of causing harm to Thalia. She wasn’t a sadist, and the notion of killing for sport was alien to her. As long as Thalia maintained silence about the incident, Diana was willing to move past it. Even though Thalia’s acting that day was more wooden than a puppet show without strings.

However, Thalia took an unpredictable turn, going berserk with the idea of confiding in Margot, that two-timing snake in the grass.

Diana knew it was just a matter of time before Thalia’s conscience got the better of her, and the beans would be spilled. Especially to Margot, her nemesis, who seemed to relish every opportunity to cross swords with her. And telling Margot would be like sawing off the branch she was sitting on.

How could Diana allow such a greenhorn to jeopardize her path to stardom?

“It’s not like I’m heartless,” Diana mused to herself, staring out of her high-rise apartment’s floor-to-ceiling windows, the curtains wide open, unafraid of the city’s glaring lights. “But you just had to let Kael in on the secret, didn’t you?”

Kael was a coward, always terrified of his dirty laundry getting aired. It was he who insisted on “dealing” with Thalia, not her.

she could keep him wound around her finger, ensuring his absolute

swirled the red wine in her glass, the liquid’s crimson hue reminiscent

please don’t come back as a plain Jane. Better to skip the mortal coil than to give

was in the throes of her life’s greatest crisis, never anticipating that

hadn’t intended to drag Margot into this mess, but who else could she turn to in such a

her when she first explained the situation, wondering if it was all just

believe me? If you don’t, just

amid Thalia’s ragged breathing. “What are you talking about? How could I not believe you? Do you think for a second I’d take Diana’s word over yours? I should’ve seen the signs earlier; you’ve been distracted ever since that day. I should’ve known she had something to do with

felt a pang of quilt, blaming her own

She’d chosen to keep silent to protect Margot from being dragged into the chaos.

the eleventh hour. When