The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2497

Ivy set her bowl down. She actually wanted to give a serious answer this time.

“Truth is, no one can really be sure who they’re gonna walk hand in hand with forever.”

Balfour pricked up his ears quietly, listening intently to Ivy’s words.

Hearing her say that wasn’t a shock to him. For Ivy, emotional reliance was always shaky ground.

She never felt that sense of security from her biological parents; if she couldn’t count on them, what more from Balfour, whom she had only known from a stranger to a lover?

He wasn’t hurt, just felt the need to give Ivy more love, and to help her slowly build that feeling of safety.

“Mr. Howard, do you

feel the same way?” asked Olivia, genuinely surprised. She thought that lovebirds like Balfour and Ivy wouldn’t say such melancholic things.

“I don’t believe in forever, but I do know that I want to walk with her, the longer the better.”

Ivy blinked, “You’re not mad at me, are

there to be

without words. Ivy knew he

just want you

foThere was no need to think so far ahead. They just needed to hold hands

seizing the moment when they were distracted, sneaked

of minimalism. In the Howard Mansion, his

bedroom was nothing like that. Every little detail was carefully decorated with charming trinkets, and even the bed

to mention the photos of Ivy scattered

deserve all this?”

stepped forward and picked up a photo from the center of the desk. It was a

grown especially fond of that photo. Because the moment the

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photo was the treasured one tucked away in

But ever since that

even “accidentally” dropped it in front of a colleague. The wallet fell open, revealing the