The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2497

Ivy set her bowl down. She actually wanted to give a serious answer this time.

“Truth is, no one can really be sure who they’re gonna walk hand in hand with forever.”

Balfour pricked up his ears quietly, listening intently to Ivy’s words.

Hearing her say that wasn’t a shock to him. For Ivy, emotional reliance was always shaky ground.

She never felt that sense of security from her biological parents; if she couldn’t count on them, what more from Balfour, whom she had only known from a stranger to a lover?

He wasn’t hurt, just felt the need to give Ivy more love, and to help her slowly build that feeling of safety.

“Mr. Howard, do you feel the same way?” asked Olivia, genuinely surprised. She thought that lovebirds like Balfour and Ivy wouldn’t say such melancholic things.

“I don’t believe in forever, but I do know that I want to walk with her, the longer the better.”

blinked, “You’re not mad at me,

to be

each other without words. Ivy knew he got

want you to

about foThere was no need to think so far ahead. They just needed to hold hands and make the most

when they were distracted,

fan of minimalism. In the Howard Mansion, his

that. Every little detail was carefully decorated with charming trinkets, and even the bed sheets were Ivy’s favorite

photos of Ivy scattered all around the room.

do you deserve

center of the desk. It was a selfie Balfour had

had grown especially fond of that photo. Because the moment the shot was taken, Ivy

the treasured one

wallet, just a sleek black card. But ever since that photo found its home,