The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2581

“Don’t worry, once I’m back at school, I won’t hang out with those guys anymore. I’ll hit the books hard, I promise. I’ll go through all the study material Victoria got me. Please, don’t be angry anymore.”

That was the first time she had ever backed down in front of Elton.

In the past, she’d come home with her head held high no matter how wild or wrong she had been.

She never saw the point in apologizing, always feeling that if her dad pressed her to say sorry, it was because of Victoria’s presence. If Victoria messed up, she was sure he wouldn’t be so quick to discipline her. Just because it was Mara, he didn’t seem to care as much.

Elton had no idea what Mara had gone through. Just after a whole afternoon out, she came back a changed kid, and it made him suspicious.

Still, faced with her apology, he certainly had to be supportive and comforting.

“That’s my girl. You have no idea how relieved I am to hear you say that. It makes all the guidance your sister and I have given you worth it.

too impulsive, too. No matter how wrong you

my fault for not leaving you and your sister a mother. If she were here, maybe you

words stung them both.

done nothing wrong. All these years, you’ve taken care of us on your own, never bringing

hug, not quite knowing the right

If his little girl was really changing, he was more than willing to keep teaching her. He just didn’t want all his efforts over the years

a seed of love had

words were etched into Victoria’s mind, and whenever she recalled him speaking those comforting words with such a cold expression, she couldn’t

he had

complete

her hands, but the fantasy was too

little sister, but the recent changes in Mara were