The Rise of a Master: It Starts With Rejection

Chapter 591

Xena came home to find a table full of food that night. Puzzled, she turned to Alice Gunner, their housekeeper. "Are we having company tonight?"

Alice said with a smile, "I'm not sure. Mr. Summers Senior just asked me to prepare all this food."

Her grandfather did? Xena figured Curtis must be expecting friends over since nothing else made sense.

"You're home, Xena. Wash up and join me for a drink." As Curtis walked down the stairs, he beamed like a teenager in love. Xena stared at him, dumbfounded.

"What's got you-in such high spirits, Grandpa?"

"Let's discuss it over dinner."

While Xena poured them both some wine, her curiosity burned. "Can you tell me now?" As it turned out, this feast was not for guests. He was just in a great mood. "My greatest burden has finally been lifted. Isn't that worth celebrating?"

any burdens. "Will you

His eyes were

to the fact that my greatest happiness was right in

her grandfather's romantic past had her completely hooked. "Who was she? Grandpa,

took a sip of wine. "We all make mistakes, and that was my biggest one. She has a beautiful name, so I'll never

Unless she was mistaken, this had to be the same Madam Spring she had been trying to track down for months but without any

places to hear that name again, she had heard it from her own grandfather! She was Curtis' long-lost love? Ah, if he

with that look on your face? Have you heard

better to keep those details to

Chapter 591

"Xena, about you and Felix... I won't stand in your

truly love him,

ask about this sudden change of heart, Curtis had already headed upstairs. Could Sarah have something to