The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2579

Why the difference in their looks is like night and day?

Mara didn’t need to hear the words. She could read the question in Victoria’s friends’ eyes. Oh, how she’d love to know why life seemed so unfair. Why had the gods showered her sister with beauty and brains, leaving Mara feeling like she got the short end of the stick?

Home wasn’t home anymore, not when her dad wouldn’t shut up about how amazing Victoria was and how good she had been treating Mara.

But the thing was, Mara didn’t want Victoria’s kindness.

Why should she accept hand-me-downs from Victoria who had everything, only to act all high and mighty about it?

To Mara, Victoria’s help was nothing but a show-off move.

How could it be anything else when Victoria could whip through her own homework and still have time to lay out Mara’s study schedule and gather the best resources? That’s not help but a brag in disguise.

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identical princess dresses for a party, adults would always flock to Victoria. They’d rave about how she was such

on Mara? They’d muster a half-hearted,

walk in Victoria’s

times than she cared to

did she have to be the ugly duckling who couldn’t morph into a swan?

under the giant oak tree, the thought of home souring her mood, but she ha nowhere else

felt like a sanctuary. Returning home meant facing her father’s endless gripes and the ever-present comparisons

back in their presence now crashed over her like a tsunami

and she didn’t expect

see a tall figure, immaculately

08:18

It’s late. v

puzzled. The person in front of her seemed to know her.

wrong? Crying so hard your