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.

this afternoon, I’ve thought it over, and I was too impulsive, too. No matter how wrong you were, I shouldn’t have

for not leaving you and your sister a mother. If she were

words stung them

of us

in the hug, not quite knowing the right words

to keep

knew was that, a seed of

she recalled him speaking those comforting words with such a cold expression,

was the one he had fallen for at

complete stranger and offer such kind

with her hands, but the fantasy was

no idea what had happened to her little sister, but the recent changes