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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party, adults would always flock to Victoria. They’d rave about how she was such a stunning little beauty and bound to be a knockout when she grew up.

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

could only walk in Victoria’s shoes for a

more times

game of life. Why did she have to be the ugly duckling who

giant oak tree, the thought of home souring her mood, but she

vast, yet not a single corner felt like a sanctuary. Returning home meant facing

The tears she held back in their presence now crashed

vision, and she didn’t expect the

to see a tall figure, immaculately dressed

08:18

It’s late. v

puzzled. The person in front of her seemed to know her. She took the

hard