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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adults would always flock to Victoria. They’d rave about how she was such a stunning little beauty and bound to be

Mara? They’d muster a half-hearted, “Well, isn’t she a cute little

only walk in Victoria’s shoes for a day…

Mara more times than she

apart in the game of life. Why did she have to be the ugly duckling who couldn’t morph into a swan?

thought of home

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

enough. The tears she held back in their presence now crashed over her like a tsunami in her solitude.

didn’t expect the sudden offer of

a tall figure, immaculately dressed in a school uniform that screamed

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front of her seemed to know her. She took the

wrong? Crying so hard your