The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 1039

Baber was knocked down by the force of the door swinging open, landing flat on the floor and bursting into tears.

“What are you up to, you little rascal? Snooping around, are you?” Xenia accused him loudly.

Baber, frightened and looking wronged, stammered, “I wasn’t peeping…”

He hadn’t been. He just didn’t know what was going on and was too scared to step outside, so he peeked through a small crack in the door.

Xenia was in a foul mood. She already found this unprofitable kid annoying, and now that she had no outlet for her simmering anger, she decided to take it out on Baber.

She gave Baber a vicious kick, then snapped at him, “You’re nothing but trouble! Ever since we adopted you, everything’s been going wrong. We should’ve never taken you in. You’re a disaster!”

Baber doubled over in pain, clutching his stomach.

a bad mood, she’d take it out on

started showing concern for Baber, she became more cautious and started hitting him in places

from her son, Xenia treated him with absolute

thought he could finally breathe

then his grandmother

terrifying. Everyone in it

wanted to leave and go back to the orphanage in his own country, where he was always hungry and cold.

crying! You are nothing but trouble! Do you know that you got your mom arrested by the police? If you

on the child, beating him until he was on the verge of passing out, with no intention

Now that her daughter was arrested by the police, there was no way she could marry into the Blanchet family after getting out of jail. And

then, the doorbell rang. Xenia finally let go of Baber, closed the bedroom door, and went to answer the

she opened the door, sure enough, her son was there. Xenia threw herself into his

because of that Ellinor. You must find a way