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.

could keep him wound around her finger,

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

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

greatest crisis, never

hadn’t intended to drag Margot into this mess, but who else

had doubted her when she first explained the situation, wondering

believe me? If you don’t, just

to her senses 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

of quilt, blaming her own obliviousness for Thalla’s

didn’t have the luxury of dwelling on such things. She’d chosen to keep silent to protect Margot from being

Margot’s help at the eleventh hour. When would she ever be