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.

the ground, gathering dust. It was

the dam broke, and Regina began to

I miss you so

a shell of her former self. Throughout it all, only Emma stood by her, not a

pity,

the rain, and you’ve always been frail. You’re bound to be feverish by

Regina clutching the painting, her face a blend of tears and rain, not making

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

mother were still alive, how could she let Regina be treated so poorly?

yet in the vastness of the Tanner Mansion, there seemed

choice; her defiance in her father’s eyes was nothing but a nuisance. She disrupted the peace

care, she took the painting she had struggled so hard to find back to her