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.

and get hitched!" Vivienne said dismissively, her eyes

verge of tears. "Vivienne, it really isn't how she's making it out

Vivienne's gaze sharpened, "So you think you don't have to take responsibility after kissing

been in

had ever kissed

her dictionary, a kiss meant

they slept together, the responsibility would be even

you've got

is so reasonable! A real problem solver!" She thanked Vivienne in

a loss for

only I had known it would come to this, I would have never kissed her!" He

and Griffin was a cute seven-year-old, like a porcelain doll,

he had earnestly promised, "Don't worry, I'll marry you

whole situation was Percival's doing. Thus, there was no

a lifetime. We can't just rush into it because of something that happened when

a moment,

want her future marriage to Leopold to be plagued with hostility. If they could have

neither did Vivienne. She said,

that, her gaze darkened as she turned to Leopold.

down Leopold's spine at her icy tone.

he hurriedly whisked Griffin

them leave, then settled back in her chair. "Let's continue

"Sure."

in the room was still recovering from

her eyebrows lifting. "Mr. Wolf, that was

lips curled slightly. "Breaking ties with me is not that

not know

twinge of sympathy for

returned to

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