The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2725

“Who do you think you are, blocking my way? Get out of my sight, all of you!” screamed Madeline.

Imogen had just managed to scramble to her feet when her daughter bumped into her, sending her staggering. “Enough! Come help me up. Is my face ruined?”

“Oh, Mom, you’re bleeding. How am I going to explain this to Dad when he gets home? You, you uncultured woman, you don’t deserve the family name! What do you have over me besides your fancy background? You’re just a no-good, daddy’s girl without a mother!” Regina, having heard these words, erupted in fury, and the servants couldn’t hold her back. She lunged forward and slapped Madeline hard across the face, not sparing Imogen either. “That’s for insulting me! That’s for your words! You say I was raised without a mother? I’ll show you!”

Francis had just arrived home to this chaotic scene with Regina lashing out at Imogen and Madeline, tears streaming down her face.

He was about to lose his temper when he moved closer and caught the words from Regina’s lips, “You say I was raised without a mother?”

Francis felt a sharp pang in his heart.

It’s me!

slowly ceased her flailing and turned to see her father. She was no longer ab contain the hurt and

heard those earlier words. Eve her face throbbing from the slap, she

the other hand, was defiant. She stood up, ready to retaliate, but Regina already in Francis’s embrace. As he turned, Madeline’s slap landed on

didn’t mean to hit you. It was just that Regina… she went crazy Mom and me. I was

out of my sight. I don’t want to see you right now, nor

believe he was scolding her so

Why aren’t you angry at her?”

their situation for what it was. Just because she had taken Francis’s last name didn’t make her his

upstairs,” said

as