The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2631

He took a few swift steps forward and struck Mara’s wrist with a sudden flick of his hand. She let out a shriek as the knife clattered to the floor, her last weapon now gone.

Ivy’s smile was fragile, her face pale with the weakness that only comes after a long illness.

“If I hadn’t pushed you to your limits, how else would you have willingly walked into our trap, revealing your true colors like this? Oh, Mara, dear Mara, I’ve suspected you for so long, and now, at last, I have the proof. After killing your own sister for so many years, you still didn’t get what you wanted in the end.”

Mara, taken aback, retorted, “What do you mean?”

“Don’t you see? After all these years playing the doting sister, you still don’t get it. The biggest difference between you two is her genuine kindness. And that’s something you can never match.”

on for others, her greatest act. To the world, she was always the understanding, caring, and compassionate one, but the truth? She drove me into a corner. You’ve never lived with her. You can’t imagine how suffocating it

drifted to Balfour, but his attention was wholly fixed on Ivy,

descent into mad desperation, offered a look of pity. “That’s why I keep saying you never really knew your sister. You have no idea what she did, nor why your plot years ago

so smug. You have no clue about what really

to stage the perfect scene? Why didn’t the detectives pursue the inconsistencies? Do you think your acting was so convincing that you could fool everyone? If you believe

talking. She didn’t understand the whole story; how could she possibly know

in her arms, the sensation still vivid in her mind.

her past behind to start anew, everything had been simpler than she expected. Even the police wrapped things up

she admitted that between her and Victoria, it was

since their father’s death that the two