The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2318

If Mark’s mom hadn’t been cooking for the Howard family, he might never have had such an opportunity.

He was forever grateful to the Howards.

He had heard the story countless times from his mother-how when she was pregnant with him, times got tough, especially after his father walked out on them.

If it weren’t for Alyssa’s kind heart, taking them in when they had nowhere else to go, the outcome could have been grim, possibly even tragic.

Balfour drove Ivy straight to the hospital, back to the same room, the same doctor.

The doctor was surprised to see them back so soon. “Didn’t you just get discharged yesterday? What happened now?”

foot, revealing a swollen mass, his brow

your body, Mrs. Howard. You

how badly she was hurt. No wonder she trembled in his arms-he had

a fracture?” Ivy asked, urgency in her voice. She was anxious to get

with a broken bone which would take months to recover. If it was broken, who knew how

tell what was weighing

Ivy,

him about the pain she was in? Would she rather bite her lip and bear it than share her pain

she have followed him into the woods? No, even if he hadn’t lashed out, Ivy would have followed. He knew too well how kind-hearted

because he knew exactly the kind of person Ivy was, and yet he had judged her

have been