The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2784

Madeline couldn’t help but scoff. “That’s ridiculous. If what that witch said was true – if then how could they live such a he really had the power to stir up the real estate market hard-knock life before?”

It was only after they were brought to the Tanners that they could finally break from their plight.

Just the thought of the past made Madeline’s face darken with a scowl.

If she could, she’d sever all ties with those memories. She didn’t care if people called her ungrateful. Let them walk a mile in her shoes, then they’d understand. But no, Madeline was done with that life, done with the shadows that had once engulfed her every day.

She would never allow Imogen to disrupt their new life, the life they had painstakingly built. They could only move upwards, never glancing back.

to tell her the truth, then she’d find her own way to that man.

house early. She had made plans with Ablett a couple of days earlier to take a group of kids from the local orphanage out for a day of fun.

her about safety, emphasizing that under no circumstances were they to lose any

It’s not like I’m the only staff there. We’ll bring every single one of those kids back to the orphanage

orphanage several times before, Daphne n failed to repeat her

contrary, she found it endearing how

patience with the kids, in particular,

the orphanage was just another activity, and the kids were passersby

and again, had shaken her head. If a child really needed a home and a destined family came along, she’d let them be together. But for Daphne, such decisions required extreme caution. The kids were there because they had already been hurt and abandoned once by adults. She couldn’t bear the thought of them going

yourself. Why don’t I do a feature on the orphanage? I’ll get the word out so good