The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2569

“Mara, dare you swear to me that you’ve got nothing to do with this mess?”

Mara let out a scoff and stepped back, “Oh, Balfour, you’ve gone mad. I get it, she’s hurt, and it’s tearing you up inside. But you’ve got the wrong one to blame. Who snatched Ivy? Go hunt down that culprit! Why the hell are you grilling me?

After all these years, our friendship doesn’t mean jack to you, does it? Can’t you muster a sliver of trust for me? If I were behind this, why would I waltz right into the lion’s den, visiting Alyssa today?”

Mara’s brain was racing, scrambling for any reason to clear her name.

Balfour’s brow furrowed as he listened, his eyes clouded with doubt, “Is that so? You’d better not be pulling a fast one on me! You get it, right? I didn’t want to drag you into this mess, that’s why I came to you for the truth.”

Hearing Balfour’s words, Mara breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed he was starting to buy her story.

“Alright then. Do you have any idea how much your interrogation just now hurt me?”

“I guess I’m just a mess of worry. Ivy’s still not out of the ER, and it’s been one damn thing after another. I’m sorry.”

except forgiving you? We’ve been tight for years, and I get where you’re coming from. But how’s

some knocks and was scared to unconsciousness, so she hasn’t woken up

that so?”

snapping incriminating photos of Ivy, then leaking

even this simple task,

plain on

that look? You don’t seem happy to hear she’s

to reality, and she plastered on

“I mean, Ivy and I aren’t exactly BFFs, but she’s your girl, of course I want her to be alright.”

of emotion

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Chapter 2569

you still have that old photo you put

Balfour was getting at. Why was he suddenly bringing up her