Everyone was slack-jawed with amazement.
Just a kiss?
Was it really necessary to chase after Leopold for 15 years just because of a peck on the lips?
This woman was really something!
“Explain, my foot! My BFF told me a kiss is as good as hitting the hay, and you even held me close, swearing you’d marry me when we grew up! Are you even a man? Can’t remember your promises?” Griffin fumed, her anger mounting by the second.
That was her first kiss.
And she had held onto it for 23 years, waiting for Leopold to step up and take responsibility.
But this guy!
He was flat-out denying it!
Leopold was hopping mad, “Which of your BFFs said that? Bring her here. I’ll give her a piece of my mind! Responsible for a kiss? If that’s the case, considering the number of women I’ve kissed, should I marry them all?”
“Ptooey! Have I lost my mind? Why did I say ‘the number of women I’ve kissed’? I’ve only ever kissed Griffin!” He thought.
And it was that very kiss that had sparked a decade and a half of pursuit, leaving him so terrified that he dared not even think of romance.
“You dared to kiss someone else?” Griffin’s face turned a shade of jealous green.
Leopold opened his mouth to explain, but Griffin turned her back, clinging to Vivienne’s legs and wailing, “Vivienne, look at this scoundrel! Not only does he refuse to take responsibility for me, but he’s also messing around with other women. My life is so miserable, truly unbearable.”
Vivienne rubbed her temples as Griffin’s ranting gave her a headache.
She grabbed Leopold, swiftly healed his previously dislocated arm amid his cries of surprise, and then shoved him toward Griffin.
“Go and get hitched!” Vivienne said dismissively, her eyes rolling with contempt.
“Vivienne, it really isn’t
sharpened, “So you think you don’t have to take responsibility after
never been in a
had ever
her dictionary, a
they slept together, the responsibility
got to take
is so reasonable! A real problem
at a loss
only I had known it would come to
he seemed to forget that he was only ten at the time, and Griffin was a
kiss, he had earnestly promised, “Don’t
from Percival, but then he remembered that this whole situation was Percival’s doing. Thus, there was no way he
it’s supposed to last a lifetime. We can’t
Griffin. “Shall we step outside to talk? I promise
a moment, then
to Leopold to be plagued with hostility. If they could have a decent conversation, that
did
as she turned to Leopold.
ran down Leopold’s spine at her icy tone. He nodded meekly. “Understood, Vivienne.
he hurriedly
them leave, then settled back in her chair.
“Sure.”
room was still
Percival, her eyebrows lifting. “Mr. Wolf,
slightly. “Breaking ties with me
not know what
felt a twinge of sympathy for
returned to
noting that
fact that Griffin left so peacefully was
an
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