The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2250

Diana had no intention of causing harm to Thalia. She wasn’t a sadist, and the notion of killing for sport was alien to her. As long as Thalia maintained silence about the incident, Diana was willing to move past it. Even though Thalia’s acting that day was more wooden than a puppet show without strings.

However, Thalia took an unpredictable turn, going berserk with the idea of confiding in Margot, that two-timing snake in the grass.

Diana knew it was just a matter of time before Thalia’s conscience got the better of her, and the beans would be spilled. Especially to Margot, her nemesis, who seemed to relish every opportunity to cross swords with her. And telling Margot would be like sawing off the branch she was sitting on.

How could Diana allow such a greenhorn to jeopardize her path to stardom?

“It’s not like I’m heartless,” Diana mused to herself, staring out of her high-rise apartment’s floor-to-ceiling windows, the curtains wide open, unafraid of the city’s glaring lights. “But you just had to let Kael in on the secret, didn’t you?”

Kael was a coward, always terrified of his dirty laundry getting aired. It was he who insisted on “dealing” with Thalia, not her.

The more leverage she had on Kael, the tighter she could keep him wound around her finger, ensuring his absolute loyalty.

wine in her glass, the liquid’s crimson hue reminiscent of blood

a next life, please don’t come back as a plain Jane. Better to

her life’s greatest crisis, never anticipating that she’d be discovered by

who else could she turn to in such a dire moment?

explained the situation, wondering if it was all just a bad

don’t, just say it. I

take Diana’s word over yours? I should’ve seen the signs earlier; you’ve been distracted ever since that day. I should’ve known

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quilt, blaming her own obliviousness

such things. She’d chosen to keep silent to protect Margot from being dragged into

the eleventh hour.