The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2707

The crowd was somewhat taken aback; nobody expected Regina to still be able to flash a smile after what she’d been through, let alone engage in light-hearted banter.

In their hearts, an undeniable sentiment emerged: Regina was unmistakably still the true Miss Tanner.

But at the back, Madeline was fuming, her lips twisted in anger. Why should Regina steal the spotlight like this?

What an utterly shameless woman, Madeline thought. To be accused of swiping her own mother’s bracelet and still have the nerve to laugh about it? Regina’s mental fortitude was certainly something else.

“Are you trying to muddy the waters, Regina? You owe our mother an explanation,” she hissed.

at Madeline, it was no wonder she was

to do with any of the guests? They had already shown enough respect to the Tanner family

the crime of the century, is it? Huh?” Daphne Olsen spoke up, a longtime friend of Regina. Daphne had been itching to stand up for Regina but had been silenced

her moment, both Francis and Imogen’s faces turned sour, while Madeline reacted as if her tail had been stepped on, abandoning any pretense of being the well-mannered Tanner heiress.

pearls of wisdom to fall from a dog’s mouth. What are you blabbering about? Who are you to talk like that, and who let you into our home!”

to be so impolite? This is Miss Olsen of the

and had it not been for the connection between Regina and the family, the Tanners would have lost their business

had really stepped in it this time. Her face turned beet red,

was she to know this sharp-tongued woman was none other than the esteemed Miss Olsen?

her was the friendship between Regina and Daphne, seeing the