The Kiss that Sparked it All

When Ellinor came out of the room with Baber, Quinton was still waiting at the door, glued to his phone against the wall.

Quinton immediately straightened up as he heard the door open, putting on his most respectful attitude.

Quinton looked surprised when he saw Ellinor with a kid. What the heck happened?

He’d been standing at the door the whole time, making sure no one disturbed Ms. Mendoza’s rest. So how did Ms. Howard’s kid come out of the room?

“Ms. Mendoza, why is the kid in your room?”

Ellinor responded, “I have no clue. I just saw him run in from the balcony.”

Ah, got it!

Quinton thought there was no way he would have let anyone in. He politely said, “I’m really sorry for the kid’s interruption. Let me handle this. You can go have your meal.”

Ellinor nodded and brought Baber to Quinton, but Baber clung to Ellinor’s hand tightly, refusing to let go.

It had been a long time since he had such good sleep; he

him all the while, even singing lullabies to him, making him

the bad sort his mom made her out to be, so he hoped to stick

Quinton worried Baber would upset Ms. Mendoza, and he quickly said, ‘Baber, come here; let’s find

the word ‘mom’ made Baber even more reluctant to let go

head and softly said, “Remember what I

let go and walked over to

Baber hadn’t been listening to Ms. Howard

Ms. Mendoza said. It

Baber and took him back to Patricia.

watched as Baber was carried away. She felt a bit worried and

dining table full of

there was nobody at the table. Dean and Alyssa must not have come yet, and Balfour