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!”

due to her daughter’s words, “Now you’re blaming me? Didn’t you also fail to admit your mistake in time? And how could we have admitted it? Once admitted, it becomes something that can’t be changed. You wouldn’t have a chance to prove your innocence

of course. She just felt that even the worst outcome would be better than being banished

he didn’t specify for

obviously assigned by Grandpa to keep an eye on

was not the life she

thought about it, the more unwilling Patricia felt, and the more she wanted to cry…

despite her annoyance at Patricia’s reproach and misunderstanding, still felt a twinge of pity for her. After all, she was relying on

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

laugh at them, Patricia tried hard to stop crying. She wouldn’t let that detestable Ellinor laugh at her…

we do now? I’ve lost my brother’s trust and affection, lost the love of my grandparents,

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