The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 1941

“I know everyone around here. Just tell me who you’re looking for, maybe I can help ya out!” The man blocked Ivy’s path as she tried to sidestep him. “Hey, lady, hold up! Don’t be so cold. I’m just trying to lend a hand here! Why the silent treatment?”

Ivy, finding herself cornered, reluctantly engaged in a verbal dance. “I’m meeting someone, my date actually. Would you mind stepping aside?”

She thought her request was polite enough, but for some reason, the man bristled, “And who’s this date of yours? Do tell.”

“Sorry, that’s none of your business,” Ivy replied, not keen on entertaining his advances.

Yet the man remained an unyielding obstacle.

With a sigh, Ivy’s patience wore thin. “Sir, what will it take for you to let me pass?”

He casually grabbed a glass of wine from a nearby table

eyed the proffered glass with no intention to take it. While she wasn’t adept at drinking, managing a single glass

was not naive enough to believe

there will be a second, a third,

I don’t drink,” Ivy said, lifting the hem of

that was his name, reached out and yanked her back. “Not so fast, Miss High-and-Mighty. It’s not

from the push, about

man appeared behind her, his arm snaking around her waist, steadying her with

turned to see a familiar face that left her

the interrupter. “This lady is a friend of mine. You got business with

so forward with Ivy suddenly shrank