The Kiss that Sparked it All

Dean jumped in, siding with his grandson, “Balfour, you’re spot on! Xenia, you scared off my savior here, aren’t you going to apologize to her?”

Xenia was a proud woman. There was no way she’d apologize to a young girl like Ellinor.

But Dean had spoken. She had to listen, right?

With all her extensive knowledge and experience, she knew she needed to suck it up sometimes to get things done. She’d wait for the right moment to deal with Ellinor.

So, Xenia forced a smile and said politely, “Ms. Mendoza, I apologize. I didn’t realize your importance earlier and was disrespectful.”

Ellinor smiled back, “It’s okay. I know it wasn’t intentional. No one told you I was the guest today.”

Xenia’s smile froze. What was this girl implying?

Was she hinting that Xenia wasn’t important enough to be informed about the guest?

This kid had some tricks up her sleeve. Xenia

Ellinor’s words. If there was, then someone was overthinking.

Xenia apologized, Balfour was relieved to see Ellinor’s expression lighten

walked to a chair, pulled it out like

daughter, Ellinor didn’t refuse Balfour’s kind gesture and naturally walked over to sit down.

Alyssa, which was

she saw Ellinor take her spot. She nearly lost

sit next to Grandma. That was too much! Ellinor was an

Ellinor sat down, Balfour pulled out another

up a chicken wing with her fork, “Ellinor, are

Grandma Alyssa. But there’s so much food, we cant possibly finish

kindly said, “Dean and I didn’t know what you liked, so we asked the kitchen to prepare

you like, and anything you