The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 582

McNeil Howard felt someone burning holes in the back of his head So he followed the gaze and paused just a tad.

The girl was about the same age as his daughter Patricia and radiated a familiar aura, which caught his attention. He was a bit out of it, as if some past events or a certain someone from his past came to mind. But he didn’t linger on the girl and headed straight toward the door instead.

Ellinor dropped her gaze from the man. Her mixed emotions finally settled down

McNeil Howard had once hurt her mother, driving her into a comer and forcing her to leave home with young Ellinor. That’s why old Mr. Bagley couldn’t stand his guts. She had no memones of her biological father, not even a vague shadow of him resided in her memory. A man this heartless must have never taken care of her when she was a child. So there was nothing for her to remember.

“Marlinie!”

Ellinor was still mulling over these thoughts when suddenly an old pair of hands grabbed hers tightly.

jumped, looking up to see

you

think

her and kept mumbling to herself, “Marlinie, you can’t keep coming home this late. It worries me

the door. Hearing the old lady call the name Marlinie, he stopped in his tracks, turning to look back. The old lady was talking to the

helplessly. “You really got the wrong

frowned and admonished “Marlinie, stop being angry with me! Be a good girl, stop hanging out with that boy from the Howard family! He doesn’t look like good news, you’ll

and Ellinor

old lady’s words, Ellinor figured out she was the

thought she was her

was her mother’s

over to help old Mrs. Bagley “Grandma, you’ve mistaken her for someone else again. She’s my friend,

saying excitedly.

said helplessly, “Grandma, she really isn’t