The Kiss that Sparked it All

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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.”

blinked, “You’re not mad at

there to be mad about?”

without words. Ivy knew he got her, and that was enough.

just want you to

need to think so far ahead. They just needed to hold hands and make the most

were distracted, sneaked into

of minimalism. In the Howard Mansion, his room was a

Every little detail was carefully decorated with charming trinkets,

of Ivy scattered all around

do you deserve all this?”

photo from the center of the desk. It was a

reluctant at the time, Balfour had grown especially fond of that photo. Because the moment the shot was taken, Ivy had gently kissed

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one tucked away in Balfour’s

black card. But ever since that photo found its home, he took his

front of a colleague. The wallet fell open, revealing the photo