The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2727

“Mr. Tanner, with the rain pelting down like this, Regina will definitely catch a cold running out there by herself.”

Francis’s tone was stiff, “If she gets sick, it’s her own doing. Did I send her out into the storm?”

Sensing his resolve weakening, Emma quickly added, “Why not let me go with Miss Regina to look for it? That painting is like a cherished memory of better times for her. Sir, it’s no wonder she’s so frantic.”

With a heavy sigh, Francis waved a dismissive hand, and Emma hurried out into the downpour.

It was a lapse on their part, the staff, that they hadn’t noticed where the painting that had hung for over a decade had been discarded. They knew only that it had been taken down, but not where it had ended up. A real shame, indeed.

Worried to the core, Emma didn’t hesitate for a second before dashing into the rain.

In the end, Regina found her prized painting in a small storage shed next door, amid a pile of household odds and ends.

dust. It was as if only Regina cherished the memories of her

the dam broke, and Regina began

you so

of her former self. Throughout it all, only Emma stood by her, not a single other family

with pity, dried Regina’s drenched hair.

in the rain, and

face a blend of tears and rain, not making at sound, completely shutting out the world, Emma’s own

your mother were here, she wouldn’t let you end up in such a state, would she?”

were still alive, how could she let Regina be treated

in the vastness of the Tanner Mansion, there seemed to be no room for

choice; her defiance in her father’s eyes was nothing but a nuisance.

painting she had struggled so