The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 991

That time, on the way to the countryside.

Bawling her eyes out, Patricia reproached her mother, “Mom, look at the mess you’ve made! Now we’re being shipped off to the boondocks!”

Xenia was already feeling low, and her daughter’s reproach only made it worse.

“Patri, I can take it from others, but how could you say that to me? Who am I doing all this for, if not you?”

Patricia, at this point, had no patience to understand her mother and retorted, “I know you did it for me, but you didn’t help at all. You just made things worse! Mom, we would’ve been better off admitting our mistakes in front of Grandpa and Grandma; maybe they would have given us another chance instead of sending us off to the countryside!”

her daughter’s words, “Now you’re blaming me? Didn’t you also fail to admit your mistake in time? And how

the logic, of course. She just felt that even the worst outcome would be better than being banished to the boonies! She didn’t fancy the

didn’t specify for how long. Would they ever be

on them. Once they reached the countryside, they probably wouldn’t even have the freedom to leave

was not the life she wanted!

about it, the more unwilling Patricia felt, and the

her annoyance at Patricia’s reproach and misunderstanding, still felt a twinge of pity for

console Patricia, “All right, all right! No more crying! Patri now’s not the time for us to be at each other’s throats! If we let differences come between us, wouldn’t that just make Ellinor happy, giving her

to

at her mother, “What can we do now? I’ve lost my brother’s trust and affection, lost the love of

on their phones, and others were dozing off. Then, she whispered to her daughter, “I don’t have an effective plan to change the situation right now.